transitive verb. To rid of impurities.

transitive verb. To rid of foreign or objectionable elements.

transitive verb. To free from moral or spiritual defilement.

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.

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.

verb. To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities

verb. To free (someone) from guilt or sin

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

pure  purification  purism  purist  puritan  

purified  purifying  

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purified  

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