transitive verb. To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean.

To make clean; free from filth, impurity, infection, or, in general, from whatever is polluting, noxious, or offensive.

To free from moral impurity or guilt.

To remove; wash or purge away.

In calico-printing, to render (the undyed parts) white and clean by removing the excess of mordant from them by immersion in a bath of cow-dung and warm water, or in some artificial substitute; to dung.

In brewing, to remove the yeast from (the beer).

To become clean.

transitive verb. To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

verb. To free from dirt; to clean, purify.

verb. To spiritually purify; to free from sin or guilt; to purge.

verb. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing

verb. purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins