Purify

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  • transitive verb. To rid of impurities.
  • transitive verb. To rid of foreign or objectionable elements.
  • transitive verb. To free from moral or spiritual defilement.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make pure or clear; free from contamination or extraneous admixture: as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
  • To make ceremonially clean; cleanse or free from whatever pollutes or renders ceremonially unclean and unfit for sacred service.
  • To free from guilt, or the defilement of sin; free from whatever is sinful, vile, or base.
  • To elevate and free from barbarisms or inelegances: as, to purify a language.
  • To grow or become pure or clear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow or become pure or clear.
  • transitive verb. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter
  • transitive verb. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement.
  • transitive verb. To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
  • transitive verb. To free from improprieties or barbarisms.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities
  • verb. To free (someone) from guilt or sin
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make pure or free from sin or guilt
  • verb. become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin
  • verb. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
  • Word Usage
    "Tekroury, from the verb تكرر: meaning to renew, improve and purify, that is to say, their faith and learning by the pilgrimage."
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