Cleansing may refer to: *

Ethnic cleansing Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer ...

, the systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group *

Cleanliness Cleanliness is both the state of being clean and free from germs, dirt, trash, or waste, and the habit of achieving and maintaining that state. Cleanliness is often achieved through cleaning. Culturally, cleanliness is usually a good quality, as ...

, the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the process of achieving and maintaining that state *

Data cleansing Data cleansing or data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database and refers to identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate or irrelevant parts of the dat ...

, in data management, the detection and correction of corrupt or inaccurate records *

Social cleansing Social cleansing ( es, limpieza social) is social group-based killing that consists of the elimination of members of society who are considered "undesirable", including, but not limited to, the homeless, criminals, street children, the elderly, th ...

, the elimination of "undesirable" social elements *

Detoxification (alternative medicine) Detoxification (often shortened to detox and sometimes called body cleansing) is a type of alternative-medicine treatment which aims to rid the body of unspecified "toxins" – substances that proponents claim accumulate in the body over ...

or body cleansing, is a disputed alternative medical practice **

Colon cleansing Colon cleansing, also known as colon therapy, or colon hydrotherapy, or a colonic, or colonic irrigation encompasses a number of alternative medical therapies claimed to remove unspecified toxins from the colon and intestinal tract by remov ...

, an alternative medicine involving the use of enemas and diets, often as part of detoxification * ''Cleansing'' (album), an album by Prong *"The Cleansing", a song by Overkill from the album '' The Killing Kind'' *

Zachistka Zachistka ( rus, зачистка, lit. ''clearing operation'') is an unofficial Russian military term for "building (room-to-room) clearing operations" (battle drill) featuring armed patrols and house-to-house searches. The term is mostly associ ...

("cleansing operation"), house-to-house operations mostly associated with the reinstatement of Russian rule in Chechnya

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