Definitions for purifies

purifies pu·ri·fy

Spelling: [pyoo r-uh-fahy]
IPA: /ˈpyʊər əˌfaɪ/

Purifies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in purifies (efiiprsu).

Definitions for purifies

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 purifies

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

Examples for purifies

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for purifies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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