Definitions for purify

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purify pu·ri·fy

Spelling: [pyoo r-uh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈpyʊər əˌfaɪ/

Purify is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in purify (fipruy).

Definitions for purify

verb (used with object)

1. to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates:
2. to free from foreign, extraneous, or objectionable elements:
3. to free from guilt or evil.
4. to clear or purge (usually followed by of or from).
5. to make clean for ceremonial or ritual use.

verb (used without object)

1. to become pure.

Origin of purify

1250-1300; Middle English purifien Middle French purifier Latin pūrificāre. See pure, -ify

Examples for purify

"We have an Islamic government, an interior ministry trying to purify its image, and a conservative masculine society," he says.

The legislator must purify them, and if he be not a despot he will find this task to be a difficult one.

Purity and impurity belong to oneself; no one can purify another.

It is an exercise, also, which tends at once to elevate and to purify the mind.

From just past the city limits came Ernest Hemingway to purify the American language and create another heroic legend.

In our case, however, we shall only need to purify the streams before they meet.

“I picture scientists finding new ways to purify water, or diagnose disease,” Sindi says.

Then they strewed the grass on the sand, to purify it from taint of earth, and then they began.

That your error may not increase, I will endeavour to purify your soul.'

Germany, he said, had been divinely ordained to conquer the world and purify it.