(v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(2) Colonic cleansing was better with polyethylene glycol electrolyte lavage (90 percent optimal cleansing vs. 75 percent).
(3) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(4) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
(5) The need to reappraise methods of reducing transient skin flora in 'hygienic' hand cleansing and the tests used for this purpose are discussed.
(6) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(7) The ingestion of Iso-Giuliani represents a safe, effective and well-accepted method of colon cleansing, and is our elective method of preparation for colonoscopy.
(8) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(9) Prolonged continuous proteolysis (for about 100 hours) of the caseous-necrotic content in an open cavern with the help of the enzyme reduces the term of full cleansing of an open cavern to 7-12 days.
(10) In others (such as the Homs region, where Assad's men have burned the property registry), the strategy looks like a more permanent ethnic cleansing.
(11) It is argued that consent by the patient to reuse dialyzers which have been mechanically cleansed is not required provided adequate standards of practice and safety are utilized.
(12) Decisions about how to cleanse a wound and which dressing to use are often complicated by unexpected changes in the patient's condition, or the sudden occurrence of a wound infection.
(13) It is recommended that incubator humidity is raised for babies under 30 weeks' gestation in the first days of life but meticulous attention should be paid to fluid balance, avoiding overheating, and cleansing of the humidifier reservoir.
(14) The majority of respondents (104 or 51 percent) used cathartics and enemas as the primary method of mechanical bowel cleansing.
(15) Surface hydrophobicity, surface electrokinetic potential and the ability to adhere to nitric-acid cleansed glass surfaces has been assessed throughout the growth, in batch culture, of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis.
(16) Skin type, season, and environmental conditions are factors to be considered when determining a proper cleansing regimen for the face.
(17) Two years ago, the United Nations tried to square the circle of avoiding wars between states while fulfilling its pledges to "us the peoples," by adopting the "right to protect", setting out the principle of humanitarian intervention in the case of "national authorities manifestly failing to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity".
(18) The same brushes were then compared against each other for their ability to remove artificial plaque in models of interproximal and facial surface cleansing effectiveness.
(19) They were then rebonded to the cleansed tooth surface and again subjected to a bond strength test.
(20) It was shown that collocyl as well as trypsin modified gauze and kapron accelerated cleansing the wounds of nonviable tissues, decreased their infectivity, reduced intoxication of the organism and improved the course of the wound process.
Purgatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
(n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) They'd been on court just half an hour short of their four hours and 50 minutes purgatory in Melbourne and Murray could smell history in his nostrils – or was it cordite?
(2) She is still reliant on a fairy godmother ( Helena Bonham Carter ) to help wrest her from this servile purgatory, and her life ambitions still seem to include marrying a prince and wearing a very nice dress.
(3) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
(4) He said: “I think the defendants have gone through purgatory.
(5) In old news we’ve all heard before, United will ramp up their efforts to lure Gareth Bale from a Real Madrid purgatory he has stoically shown no obvious desire to abandon, while they are also interested Wolfsburg’s Kevin De Bruyne .
(6) Hazell describes the purgatory of a mixed recycling box as it gets “taken off to a big shed with lots of conveyor belts.
(7) Despite his upcoming trip to baseball purgatory, Braun continues to play with words – even though the game, at least for this season, is over.
(8) Scientists at the US space agency said the craft had gone into a region at the edge of the solar system, describing it as "a kind of cosmic purgatory".
(9) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
(10) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(11) Unfortunately for Profumo, in his quiet pursuit of personal redemption, he could not escape the public purgatory imposed by his 1963 image as an errant playboy-politician.
(12) According to Plazzi, both of these can be seen in Dante's work, particularly his 14th-century epic poem in which his narrator travels through hell, purgatory and heaven.
(13) That has left thousands of people trapped in a form of purgatory, stripped of the ability to say a final farewell to those they loved.
(14) An indefinite interim deal, May said, would be “permanent political purgatory” and she wanted “nothing that leaves us half-in, half-out”.
(15) For Baddour’s group of mostly twenty-somethings, it was a kind of purgatory, a limbo between their hellish life in Syria and a better future they hoped for in Europe.
(16) Frankly, it's hard to imagine an actor with a better chance of rescuing Aquaman from superhero purgatory.
(17) It's a type of purgatory.” The truly unlucky are the estimated 700 to 1,000 people who dwell in the holes and shacks by the riverbed, a mile-long, stinking stretch of sewage and debris known as El Bordo from which the US, in the form of shopping malls and flags, can be seen peeking over a graffiti-covered fence.
(18) After 49 days, another ceremony is held for the souls of the dead to escape Bardo, or purgatory, and move on to their next life.
(19) Wes Brown and Phil Bardsley are emerging from very different forms of rehabilitation but these two seemingly reborn Manchester United old boys revelled in reinforcing the idea that trips to Wearside spell purgatory for Manchester City .
(20) Meanwhile, Daca youth are safe (for now), but locked in a legal purgatory, as family members are forced into exile and the futures of their own reprieves remains uncertain.