hreinsa - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną.
hreinsa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hreinsaði, supine hreinsað)
- to clean, to cleanse [with accusative]
- Synonym: þrífa
- (e.g. of oil or air) to refine, to purify [with accusative]
- Að hreinsa olíu. ― To refine oil.
- Hreinsað loft. ― Purified air.
- Hreinsaðar olíuvörur. ― Refined petroleum products.
- dauðhreinsa (“to sterilise”)
- fituhreinsa (“to degrease”)
- hreinsa af ákæru (“to exculpate”)
- hreinsa sig
- hreinsa sig af
- hreinsa til
- hreinsaður
- hreinsaður sykur (“refined sugar”)
- hreinsanlegur (“refinable”)
- hreinsun
- óhreinsaður (“unrefined, unrectified”)
- óhreinsaður sykur (“unrefined sugar”)
- sótthreinsa (“to disinfect”)
From Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“clean, cleanse, purify”).
hreinsa
- hreinsan f (“cleansing”)
- hreinn (“clean”)
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hreinsa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive