purify

English

Etymology

From Old French purifier, from Latin pūrificō, pūrificāre, from pūrus (“pure; clean”).

Verb

purify (third-person singular simple present purifies, present participle purifying, simple past and past participle purified)

(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
(transitive) To free from guilt or sin.
(intransitive) To become pure.

Antonyms

defile

Related terms

puritan

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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compurgate' title='compurgate'>compurgate</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compurgation' title='compurgation'>compurgation</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/compurgator' title='compurgator'>compurgator</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/expurgate' title='expurgate'>expurgate</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/expurgator' title='expurgator'>expurgator</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/neo-purism' title='neo-purism'>neo-purism</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purgation' title='purgation'>purgation</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purgative' title='purgative'>purgative</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purgatorial' title='purgatorial'>purgatorial</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purgatory' title='purgatory'>purgatory</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purge' title='purge'>purge</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purger' title='purger'>purger</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purification' title='purification'>purification</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purify' title='purify'>purify</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purism' title='purism'>purism</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purist' title='purist'>purist</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/purity' title='purity'>purity</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/spurge' title='spurge'>spurge</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/ultrapurism' title='ultrapurism'>ultrapurism</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/unexpurgated' title='unexpurgated'>unexpurgated</a>

Translations

cleanse something of impurities

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: صَفَّى‎ (ṣaffā)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: purificar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 使純淨, 使纯净 (shǐ chúnjìng), 使潔淨, 使洁净 (shǐ jiéjìng), 純化 (zh), 纯化 (zh) (chúnhuà)
Dutch: zuiveren (nl)
Esperanto: purigi
Finnish: puhdistaa (fi)
French: purifier (fr)
Galician: purificar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: reinigen (de)
Greek: εξαγνίζω (el) (exagnízo)
Ancient: ἁγνίζω (hagnízō)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: megtisztít (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Ido: purigar (io)

Italian: purificare (it)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Latin: abluō
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Maori: whakaparakore, whakahoromata
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Persian: خالص کردن‎ (fa) (xâles kardan), پالودن‎ (fa) (pâludan)
Portuguese: purificar (pt)
Russian: очища́ть (ru) impf (očiščátʹ), очи́стить (ru) pf (očístitʹ)
Spanish: purificar (es)
Swahili: takasa (sw)
Swedish: rena (sv)
Thai: ทำให้บริสุทธิ์, ชำระล้าง
Tibetan: ལྷད་མེད་བཟོས (lhad med bzos)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: teru

free someone from guilt or sin

Dutch: reinigen (nl)
French: purifier (fr)
German: rein machen
Greek:
Ancient: ἁγνίζω (hagnízō)

Hungarian: megtisztít (hu), feloldoz (hu)
Ngazidja Comorian: utwahirisha
Swahili: kusafisha

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