Concept cluster: Physical processes > Purification or cleansing
adj
Pertaining to ablution.
n
One who performs ablution
adj
Ablutionary, intended for or engaged in abluting.
v
(obsolete) To cleanse
n
(archaic) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
adj
Cleansing; purging; abstergent.
adj
of or pertaining to abstersion; which cleanses
n
Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.
n
self-purification
v
(obsolete) To render balmy.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
n
The process by which something is made blunt.
adj
Expurgated, especially in a comprehensive way (such as systematically throughout an entire work).
n
(figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
v
To clean or purify thoroughly.
n
A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
n
The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.
n
Ritual purity.
adj
That cleanses.
n
(rare, nonstandard) The condition or state of being clean; cleanliness
n
Alternative spelling of cure-all [(colloquial) Synonym of panacea: a medicine or practice that cures all human ailments.]
n
The act, process or result of deaspirating.
n
The act of decaudating, or removing the tail from something.
n
A devastator or destroyer.
n
(archaic) That which cleanses or purifies; especially, an apparatus for removing impurities from juices and syrups.
adj
That causes (or is accompanied by) deflagration
n
Something which deflagrates.
adv
(figuratively) So as to deflate.
n
An act or instance of deflating.
adj
Relating to deflation
n
That which deflates.
v
(transitive, slang) To take out of a funk; to enliven; to cheer up.
n
One who, or that which, defuses.
n
The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
adj
(medicine) depurative
adj
(obsolete) Depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.
n
The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
adj
(medicine) Purifying the blood or humours; depuratory.
n
One who, or that which, cleanses.
adj
Tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
v
(obsolete) to depurate; to purify
adj
Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
n
Alternative form of depuration [The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.]
v
To remove the cleanliness from something; to dirty.
v
To remove the sinews from.
n
One who, or that which, deteriorates.
n
The act of deterging or cleansing.
n
A detoxification unit.
v
(transitive) To remove vegetation.
n
One who, or that which, digests.
v
To purify; to make less corrupt
n
The act of expunging, of wiping out; expungement.
v
(obsolete) To make or become lean; to emaciate.
v
(transitive) To make extremely thin or wasted.
n
(obsolete) The act of ridding something of its flaws or errors.
n
An act of disembowelment.
n
(ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
v
To subject to epuration; to purify.
n
any type of political cleansing, such as ethnic cleansing
n
The act of plucking up by the roots; an uprooting; extirpation; utter destruction.
n
something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels
n
One who evacuates; a nullifier.
n
A purgative.
n
A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
v
(transitive) To deprive or strip of flesh.
n
(obsolete) The removal of flesh; excarnation.
n
(rare) The act of bringing into existence from nothing.
n
(obsolete) The removal of fruit stones.
v
(transitive) To purify with sacred rites.
n
The act of explanting.
n
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
adj
Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory.
adj
(obsolete) expurgatory
adj
Serving to expurgate.
n
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
n
(obsolete) An extirpator.
n
The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
v
(intransitive) To experience purification or rejuvenation.
n
The object of such purification; a sacrifice.
n
The act or process of impurifying.
adj
Of or pertaining to (ritual) purification.
n
(religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.
adj
Relating to lustration or purification.
adj
Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
n
(historical) A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census.
n
One who, or that which, macerates.
v
(obsolete) To soften.
adj
(dated) Serving to cleanse and heal.
adj
cleansing
adj
Of or pertaining to cleansing
n
(obsolete) A cleansing agent.
v
(obsolete) To cleanse.
n
A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
n
(obsolete) That which is excreted or purged; excretion.
n
The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
adj
(capable of) purging
adj
That purifies by removing sin; expiatory.
n
One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory.
n
Obsolete spelling of purgatory [Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.]
adj
Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
n
A cleansing of pipes.
n
The victim of a purge.
n
(Christianity, now rare) The place where the soul is purged of sin: Purgatory.
n
(Scientology) Purification Rundown
adj
Purificatory.
n
A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
n
(Scientology) A detoxification program used by the Church of Scientology, involving exercise, vitamins, and long periods in a sauna, and supposed to treat long-term effects of drug abuse or exposure to toxins.
adj
Of or relating to purification.
adj
Having power to purify or cleanse.
n
One who, or that which, purifies; a purifier.
adj
That purifies; purificative
v
(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
adv
So as to purify.
v
(intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cleanse or refine again.
v
To reduce to a skeleton.
adj
(rare) Cleansing.
v
(transitive) To reverse the cleansing of; make unclean
v
(transitive) To strip of flesh; to reduce to a skeleton.
v
To deprive of the viscera or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

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