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cleanse

verb as in make undirty; wash

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Neath Port Talbot Council said cleansing staff had removed small amounts of the debris from beaches and that it was also monitoring the situation.

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She asked for a white male manager to identify himself and cleanse the sins of greedy capitalism by agreeing to take a shower onstage.

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The bill, the anti-Israel group said, “would silence discussion of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation of children and families in Gaza.”

Of the thousands of reasons Israel wasn’t committing genocide or ethnic cleansing, this moment is proof enough.

The mobilisation order was reportedly issued via phone calls and text messages which said the aim was to "cleanse Gaza of outlaws and collaborators with Israel" and told fighters to report within 24 hours.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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