rense

rense (third-person singular simple present renses, present participle rensing, simple past and past participle rensed)

1. Obsolete form of rinse.
   • 1725, Willem Séwel, A Compendious Guide to the Low-Dutch Language, page 52:

     First, you must get up every morning at six a clock, and wash your hands and face, then rense your mouth, and rub your teeth, and then you must go into your chamber and pray […]

From Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną, cognate with Swedish rensa, Old High German reinisōn (English rinse is borrowed from Old French rincer). Derived from the adjective *hrainiz (“clean”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛnsə/, [ˈʁansə], [ˈʁɑnsə]

rense (past tense rensede, past participle renset)

1. to clean, cleanse, rinse, purify

• rens
• renselse
• rensemiddel
• renseri
• rensning

• “rense” in Den Danske Ordbog

From French rincer (“rince”).

• IPA^(key): /ɣɛ̃se/

rense

1. To rinse

From Old Norse hreinsa.

rense (imperative rens, present tense renser, passive renses, simple past and past participle rensa or renset, present tense rensende)

1. to clean, cleanse
2. to purify

   rense lufta / luften - clear the air (defuse a situation)

• “rense” in The Bokmål Dictionary.