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decleanse en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + cleanse.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) Synonym of uncleanse
   • decleansed more than 1,000 cars of recent vintage. 1972, Newsweek, Incorporated (publisher), Newsweek, page 99:
   • He was decleansed right here in this room and myself, across the hall where my only child sits right now. 2023, Charles R. Bourgeois, The Folly:
   • The decleansing of the vegetation can only occur in the presence of sunlight. That decleansing will solve the problem of the particular bacteria. 1980, Victoria, Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Volume 357, page 6909:
   • All in all if the Shity is to be succesful then these holes have to be covered in. The dog city girls need to be decleansed and will have to stop flogging there holes for a dollar a go. 2002 October 7, Freddie Shepard, “Will they get the culture capital 2008 ?”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.newcastle-united (Usenet):

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Synonyms

uncleanse