Exterminate vs Cleanse - What's the difference?
exterminate | cleanse |
To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.
(figuratively) To bring a definite end to, finish completely. A rather strong word that implies that what has been ended won't resurface.
To free from dirt; to clean, purify.
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To spiritually purify; to free from sin or guilt; to purge.
In transitive terms the difference between exterminate and cleanse
is that exterminate is to kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests while cleanse is to spiritually purify; to free from sin or guilt; to purge.exterminate
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Verb
(exterminat)- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy.
Synonyms
* (to kill all) annihilate, eradicate, extermine, uproot * (to bring an end to) stamp out * See alsoDerived terms
* extermination * exterminative * exterminator * exterminatorycleanse
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Verb
(cleans)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}