What are the opposite words for cleanse?
The word cleanse implies cleaning or washing something thoroughly. To describe the opposite, we can use antonyms such as dirty, soil, contaminate, or pollute. When we don't cleanse or clean something, we allow dirt, debris, or impurities to accumulate, creating an unhygienic and unsanitary environment. To prevent or avoid this situation, we should practice regular cleaning and maintenance of our personal or professional spaces. Antonyms for cleanse are useful in conveying the opposite meaning or in emphasizing the importance of hygiene and cleanliness. We should strive to use cleansing agents to avoid the accumulation of germs and viruses that can harm our health.
-
pervert
- salted,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- dis tort,
- dis torts,
- dis-tort,
- dis-torts,
- mis construe,
- mis construed,
- mis construing,
- mis interpreted,
- mis interpreting,
- mis interprets,
- mis stated,
- mis states,
- mis-construe,
- mis-construed,
- mis-construes,
- mis-construing,
- mis-interpreted,
- mis-interprets,
- mis-state,
- mis-stated,
- mis-states,
- mis-stating.
- contaminate
-
deteriorate
- lose it,
- Disimprove,
- Retrograded,
- Retrograding,
- go to pot,
- went downhill,
- goes downhill,
- go downhill,
- going downhill,
- retrogrades,
- going to pot,
- am worse for wear,
- are worse for wear,
- art worse for wear,
- be worse for wear,
- became worse,
- become worse,
- becomes worse,
- becoming worse,
- being worse for wear,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de scend,
- de scended,
- de scending,
- de scends,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-scend,
- de-scended,
- de-scending,
- de-scends,
- dis improve,
- dis improved,
- dis improves,
- dis improving,
- dis-improve,
- dis-improved,
- dis-improves,
- dis-improving,
- disimproved,
- disimproves,
- disimproving,
- go dogs,
- go pieces,
- go the dogs,
- go to dogs,
- goes dogs,
- goes pot,
- goes the dogs,
- goes to dogs,
- goes to pot,
- goes to the dogs,
- going dogs,
- going pot,
- going the dogs,
- going to dogs,
- going to the dogs,
- hit skids,
- hit the skids,
- hits the skids,
- hitting skids,
- hitting the skids,
- is worse for wear,
- loses it,
- loses quality,
- losing it,
- losing quality,
- lost it,
- lost quality,
- retro grade,
- retro graded,
- retro grades,
- retro grading,
- retro-graded,
- retro-grades,
- retro-grading,
- was worse for wear,
- wast worse for wear,
- went dogs,
- went pot,
- went the dogs,
- went to dogs,
- went to pot,
- went to the dogs,
- were worse for wear,
- wert worse for wear.
- dirty
-
damage
- wearing away,
- bang up,
- tamper with,
- tampered with,
- tampers with,
- tampering with,
- banged up,
- banging up,
- bangs up,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrates,
- dis integrating,
- dis mantle,
- dis mantled,
- dis mantles,
- dis mantling,
- dis-integrate,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrating,
- dis-mantle,
- dis-mantled,
- dis-mantles,
- dis-mantling,
- in capacitate,
- in capacitated,
- in capacitates,
- in capacitating,
- in-capacitate,
- in-capacitated,
- in-capacitating,
- wreak havoc on,
- wreaked havoc on,
- wreaking havoc on,
- wreaks havoc on,
- wrought havoc on.
-
adulterate
- contaminate,
- denature,
- denatured,
- doctor up,
- sophisticate,
- denaturing,
- make impure,
- inter-mix,
- co oked,
- co oking,
- co-oked,
- co-oking,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de nature,
- de natured,
- de natures,
- de value,
- de valued,
- de values,
- de valuing,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- de-nature,
- de-natured,
- de-natures,
- de-value,
- de-valued,
- de-values,
- de-valuing,
- denatures,
- dis solve,
- dis solved,
- dis solves,
- dis solving,
- dis-solve,
- dis-solved,
- dis-solves,
- dis-solving,
- doctored up,
- doctoring up,
- doctors up,
- in filtrate,
- in filtrated,
- in filtrating,
- in-filtrate,
- in-filtrates,
- in-filtrating,
- inter mix,
- inter mixed,
- inter mixes,
- inter mixing,
- inter-mixed,
- inter-mixes,
- inter-mixing,
- made impure,
- makes impure,
- making impure,
- phonied up,
- phonies up,
- phony up,
- phonying up,
- trans fuse,
- trans fused,
- trans fuses,
- trans fusing,
- trans-fuse,
- trans-fused,
- trans-fuses,
- trans-fusing.
- bastardize
- brutalize
-
corrupt
- maltreat,
- ravaged,
- rotted,
- smirch,
- warp,
- Illtreat,
- DE Form,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de compose,
- de composed,
- de composes,
- de composing,
- de face,
- de faced,
- de faces,
- de facing,
- de formed,
- de forming,
- de forms,
- de mean,
- de meaning,
- de means,
- de spoil,
- de spoiled,
- de spoiling,
- de spoils,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- de-compose,
- de-composed,
- de-composes,
- de-composing,
- de-face,
- de-faced,
- de-faces,
- de-facing,
- de-form,
- de-formed,
- de-forming,
- de-forms,
- de-mean,
- de-meaning,
- de-means,
- de-spoil,
- de-spoiled,
- de-spoiling,
- de-spoils,
- dis figure,
- dis figured,
- dis figures,
- dis figuring,
- dis grace,
- dis graced,
- dis graces,
- dis gracing,
- dis-figure,
- dis-figured,
- dis-figures,
- dis-figuring,
- dis-grace,
- dis-graced,
- dis-graces,
- dis-gracing,
- grease palm,
- greased palm,
- greases palm,
- greasing palm,
- mis treat,
- mis treated,
- mis treating,
- mis treats,
- mis used,
- mis using,
- mis-treat,
- mis-treated,
- mis-treating,
- mis-treats,
- mis-used,
- mis-using,
- out rage,
- out raged,
- out rages,
- out raging,
- out-rage,
- out-raged,
- out-rages,
- out-raging,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- under mined,
- under mining,
- under-mined,
- under-mining.
-
daub
- begrime,
- begrimed,
- slap on,
- Begriming,
- grimed,
- griming,
- be grime,
- be grimed,
- be grimes,
- be griming,
- be spray,
- be sprayed,
- be spraying,
- be sprays,
- be-grime,
- be-grimed,
- be-grimes,
- be-griming,
- be-spray,
- be-sprayed,
- be-spraying,
- be-sprays,
- begrimes,
- bespray,
- besprayed,
- bespraying,
- besprays,
- slapped on,
- slapping on.
-
defile
- maculate,
- tar,
- Maculated,
- Tarred,
- Tarring,
- Trashed,
- Tars,
- maculates,
- maculating,
- be smirch,
- be smirched,
- be smirches,
- be smirching,
- be-smirch,
- be-smirched,
- be-smirches,
- be-smirching,
- de file,
- de filed,
- de files,
- de filing,
- de-file,
- de-filed,
- de-files,
- de-filing,
- made foul,
- makes foul,
- making foul,
- scuzz up,
- scuzzed up,
- scuzzing up.
-
profane
- Viced,
- Vicing,
- do wrong,
- did wrong,
- does wrong,
- doing wrong,
- voodooed,
- voodooing,
- commit sacrilege,
- am evil,
- are evil,
- be evil,
- being evil,
- commit sin,
- commits sacrilege,
- commits sin,
- committed sacrilege,
- committed sin,
- committing sacrilege,
- committing sin,
- didst wrong,
- doest wrong,
- doeth wrong,
- dost wrong,
- doth wrong,
- is evil,
- pro fane,
- pro fanes,
- pro-fane,
- pro-fanes,
- put double whammy on,
- puts double whammy on,
- putting double whammy on,
- talk dirty,
- talked dirty,
- talking dirty,
- talks dirty,
- was evil,
- wast evil,
- were evil,
- wert evil.
- prostitute
- rot
- stain
- befoul
-
blur
- befog,
- befogged,
- blinded,
- blinding,
- muddied,
- smudge,
- Befogging,
- Muddying,
- tarnishes,
- muddies,
- befogs,
- be cloud,
- be clouded,
- be clouding,
- be clouds,
- be dimmed,
- be dimming,
- be fog,
- be fogged,
- be fogging,
- be fogs,
- be smear,
- be smeared,
- be smearing,
- be smears,
- be-cloud,
- be-clouded,
- be-clouding,
- be-clouds,
- be-dimmed,
- be-dimming,
- be-fog,
- be-fogged,
- be-fogging,
- be-fogs,
- be-smear,
- be-smeared,
- be-smearing,
- be-smears,
- dis color,
- dis colored,
- dis coloring,
- dis colors,
- dis-color,
- dis-colored,
- dis-coloring,
- dis-colors,
- disco loring,
- disco-loring,
- made hazy,
- made indistinct,
- made vague,
- make indistinct,
- make vague,
- makes hazy,
- makes indistinct,
- makes vague,
- making hazy,
- making indistinct,
- making vague.
-
debase
- bastardize,
- cast down,
- dope up,
- drag down,
- weighted,
- weighting,
- Bemean,
- shoot down,
- take down a peg,
- dump on,
- be mean,
- be meaning,
- be means,
- be-mean,
- be-meaning,
- be-means,
- bemeaned,
- bemeaning,
- bemeans,
- casting down,
- casts down,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de valuate,
- de valuated,
- de valuates,
- de valuating,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-valuate,
- de-valuated,
- de-valuates,
- de-valuating,
- doped up,
- dopes up,
- doping up,
- dragged down,
- dragging down,
- drags down,
- dumped on,
- dumping on,
- dumps on,
- fluff off,
- fluffed off,
- fluffing off,
- fluffs off,
- shooting down,
- shoots down,
- shot down,
- takes down a peg,
- takes down peg,
- taking down a peg,
- taking down peg,
- took down peg.
-
debauch
- go bad,
- lead astray,
- leading astray,
- be tray,
- be trays,
- be-tray,
- be-trays,
- de flower,
- de flowered,
- de flowering,
- de flowers,
- de-flower,
- de-flowered,
- de-flowering,
- de-flowers,
- go hell,
- go to hell,
- goes bad,
- goes hell,
- goes to hell,
- going bad,
- going hell,
- going to hell,
- leads astray,
- led astray,
- live gutter,
- live in gutter,
- live in the gutter,
- live the gutter,
- lived gutter,
- lived in gutter,
- lived in the gutter,
- lived the gutter,
- lives gutter,
- lives in gutter,
- lives in the gutter,
- lives the gutter,
- living gutter,
- living in gutter,
- living in the gutter,
- living the gutter,
- went bad,
- went hell,
- went to hell.
-
dishonor
- Attainted,
- Attainting,
- reflect on,
- de fame,
- de famed,
- de fames,
- de faming,
- de-fame,
- de-famed,
- de-fames,
- de-faming,
- dis consider,
- dis considered,
- dis considering,
- dis considers,
- dis credit,
- dis credited,
- dis crediting,
- dis credits,
- dis honor,
- dis honored,
- dis honoring,
- dis honors,
- dis oblige,
- dis obliged,
- dis obliges,
- dis obliging,
- dis-consider,
- dis-considered,
- dis-considering,
- dis-considers,
- dis-credit,
- dis-credited,
- dis-crediting,
- dis-credits,
- dis-honor,
- dis-honored,
- dis-honoring,
- dis-honors,
- dis-oblige,
- dis-obliged,
- dis-obliges,
- dis-obliging,
- disconsider,
- disconsidered,
- disconsidering,
- disconsiders,
- gave a black eye,
- gave black eye,
- give a black eye,
- give black eye,
- gives a black eye,
- made lose face,
- make lose face,
- makes lose face,
- making lose face,
- reflected on,
- reflecting on,
- reflects on.
-
malign
- badmouth,
- bespatter,
- bespattered,
- Bespattering,
- cast aspersion,
- casts aspersion,
- casting aspersion,
- speak ill of,
- bad mouth,
- be spatter,
- be spattered,
- be spattering,
- be spatters,
- be-spatter,
- be-spattered,
- be-spattering,
- be-spatters,
- bespatters,
- de cried,
- de cries,
- de cry,
- de crying,
- de tract,
- de tracts,
- de-cried,
- de-cries,
- de-cry,
- de-crying,
- de-tract,
- de-tracts,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- mudsling,
- mudslinged,
- mudslings,
- opprobriate,
- opprobriates,
- opprobriating,
- re vile,
- re-vile,
- spake ill of,
- speaks ill of,
- spoke ill of,
- take a swipe at,
- take swipe at,
- takes a swipe at,
- takes swipe at,
- taking a swipe at,
- taking swipe at,
- took a swipe at,
- took swipe at,
- villainize,
- villainizes,
- villainizing.
- smirch
- sully
- taint
- alter or debase, often for profit
- pollute
-
cloud, fog
- blur.
- blight, corrupt
- make undirty; wash
- pervert; pollute
- cause injury, loss
-
coat; make dirty
- daub.
- canker
- degrade, shame
- deprave, corrupt
- corrupt, violate
- decay, degenerate
- cause to be soiled
- shame, degrade
- slander, defame
- twist, turn away from what is acceptable or correct
- defile, desecrate
- to put one's talent to an unworthy use
-
corrode, deteriorate
- rot.
- dirty, taint
- soil, stain
- dirty, contaminate; ruin
- rape, defile
- hurt, corrupt
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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