c 3 l 1 e 1 a 1 n 1 s 1 e 1
7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
verb purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins
originFrom Middle English clensen, from Old English clǣnsian, from Proto-West Germanic *klainisōn, from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“clean”). Cognate with West Frisian klinzgje (“to clean, cleanse”), archaic Dutch kleinzen (“to clean, purify”), Middle Low German klênsen, kleinsen, clensen (“to purify”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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