verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ethnic cleansing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ethnically
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Mostar, the would-be capital of Herzeg-Bosna, remains split between two ethnically cleansed halves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cleanse the wound with alcohol.
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This lotion cleanses your skin deep down, while preserving its natural pH balance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Climbing the places he had loved came to seem like a cleansing experience for a sick soul.
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First I had to be cleansed - this meant drinking a lot of medicated water and throwing it up again.
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Music had cleansed him as a river cleans a gorge through which it tumbles.
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She performed a 200-peso, or $ 25, ritual cleansing with herbs, flowers, chiles and perfumed lotions.
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Swimming in open-air hot bathwater in view of ice-topped peaks is different, wonderfully different - cleansing, relaxing and just good.
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The wound was then cleansed and redressed aseptically.
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They involve the same exfoliating, cleansing, toning and moisturising routines as facials.
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This is a soul cleansing, carefully detailing the surrounding circumstances and the pressures that demanded that action be taken immediately.