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Purify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To rid of impurities; cleanse.

v. To rid of foreign or objectionable elements.

v. To free from sin, guilt, or other defilement.

verb-intransitive. To become clean or pure.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

v. To free (someone) from guilt or sin

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter

v. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement.

v. To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.

v. To free from improprieties or barbarisms.

verb-intransitive. To grow or become pure or clear.

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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make pure or free from sin or guilt

v. become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin

v. 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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