decleanse

decleanse

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ cleanse.

Verb

decleanse (third-person singular simple present decleanses, present participle decleansing, simple past and past participle decleansed)

  1. (transitive, rare) Synonym of uncleanse
    • 1972, Newsweek, Incorporated (publisher), Newsweek‎[1], page 99:
      decleansed more than 1,000 cars of recent vintage.
    • 1980, Victoria, Parliament, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Volume 357, page 6909:
      The decleansing of the vegetation can only occur in the presence of sunlight. That decleansing will solve the problem of the particular bacteria.
    • 2002 October 7, Freddie Shepard, “Will they get the culture capital 2008 ?”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.newcastle-united‎[2] (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2023, Charles R. Bourgeois, The Folly:
      He was decleansed right here in this room and myself, across the hall where my only child sits right now.
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