purify

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  1. transitive verb To rid of impurities; cleanse.
  2. transitive verb To rid of foreign or objectionable elements.
  3. transitive verb To free from sin, guilt, or other defilement.

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  • For decades now, devices have been sold that are claimed to purify or "condition" AC, filtering out potential interference-causing parts of the AC waveform and thus easing the work of the audio components 'power supplies. —  Stereophile RSS Feed
  • The concept of the four collections was to present bath and body products for use at varying points in the day (purify, unwind, nurture, sleep) - from the morning purifying rituals to give skin a boost to the Bulgarian lavender infused and citrus oils that are certain to ease you blissfully to slumber. —  Felicia C. Sullivan
  • The system is designed to purify, concentrate, detect and identify targeted nucleic acid sequences thereby delivering answers directly from unprocessed samples. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • And if the Measure B Coalition still has extra time to "purify" our community, they could start documenting all the illegal pumps along the Russian River which are being used by the Wine Growers to water their pesticide laden fields where they cut down all the 2-500 year old oaks.
  • His grandmother made him ingest cow urine and dung and then drink from the putrid Ganges River to "purify" him. —  PoopReport.com
 

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purify:   purifying ·  purified
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English purifien, from Old French purifier, from Latin pūrificāre : pūrus, clean; see pure + -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from Middle English puryfyen, from Old French purifier, French purifier = Spanish Portuguese purificar = Italian purificare, from Latin purificare, make clean or pure, from purus, clean, pure, + facere, make.
 

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/ˈpjurɪfai/
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