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Meaning of 'purify' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Purify [ v. i.]
- To grow or become pure or clear.
2 . Purify [ v. t.]
- To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
- Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
- To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
- To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

Meaning of 'purify' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . purify [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
Example in sentence:
  • he left the monastery purified
Meaning (2):
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
Example in sentence:
  • purify the water
Meaning (3):
- become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin
Example in sentence:
  • The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify

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