Слово "cleanse". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge

Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.

“Maybe that’s how it should be,” he thought, flinching from the blows and looking at Nikita’s dark, armored toenails. “Maybe this is all about atonement, cleansing, a great sacrifice . . .”

I was for leaping to complete that half-formed wish of Pilate and to sweep away in blood and cleanse the court of the wretched scum that howled in it.