to purify
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4.6
- verb
- /ˈpjʊrəˌfaɪ/
:
purificar
- Then what could be more important than purifying the water your family drinks?
- purified water
- purified protein
- purified wastewater
Because when you want to like, purify water, I need some funnel.
- Because when you want to like, purify water, I need some funnel.
- I want to see you extract it and then refine it, purify it and sell it and make money.
- The home air purifier so powerful the US Navy chose it to purify the air on their ships.
- So is pregnant human chorionic gonadotropin, is it purified from postmenopausal women's urine or is it it's synthetic?
- You don't need to be, you know, purifying out urine, right?
- So again, we're working with E coli proteins and F was purified from E coli.
Examples
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A series of transfusions to try and purify your blood.
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Many developing countries struggle to provide citizens access to purified drinking water.
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And when you purify this environment, it helps people live better.
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Down to the ground to purify the air!
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Because when you want to like, purify water, I need some funnel.
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For instance, Stanford researchers have found a new way to purify water with nanotechnology.
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The water treatment facility then purified the polluted water before reintroducing it to the James River.
Academic text (2011) -
It purifies the air.
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As the water moves through the terra filter, it is purified before it is intermingled with a tributary.
Academic text (2011) -
The water treatment facility purified the contaminated water before it was released back into the river.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To remove dirt and stains
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3.0
To pass something through a device that removes unwanted parts
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1.0
To make water or air free from harmful substances
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6.3
To remove unwanted substances, things, or people by cleaning
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3.9
Remove unwanted parts from a material to make it pure
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3.0
Remove dirt and germs from a person's body by washing
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4.1
To make something like medical tools free of bacteria using heat or chemicals
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3.7
To clean a surface, wound, or tool with chemicals to kill germs
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5.2
Make a liquid pure by heating it and collecting the cooled steam
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3.7
Make something clean and free from bacteria
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7.0
To remove harmful substances from a place or thing to make it safe
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4.2
To remove solid bits so a liquid becomes clear
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5.9
To treat water and other things with chlorine to kill bacteria
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5.4
To remove harmful substances from something to make it safe
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8.6
To remove ions from water to make it purer
To remove impurities from a liquid to make it pure
To remove solid parts from a liquid or gas using a filter
To clean a wound or the skin by washing away dirt and germs
To make something clean and free from germs
Take harmful substances out of something to make it safe
Antonyms
How Pure
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Purify comes from two parts: pur- meaning 'pure' and -fy meaning 'make'. So to purify water or air is to remove dirty or unwanted parts and make it clean.