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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation;
- Example: "purify the water"
[syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill]

2. make pure or free from sin or guilt;
- Example: "he left the monastery purified"
[syn: purify, purge, sanctify]

3. become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin;
- Example: "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purified (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Purifying (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]"[i^]ng).] [F. purifier, L. purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Pure, and -fy.] 1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. [1913 Webster] And fit them so Purified to receive him pure. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. [1913 Webster] And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. --Lev. viii. 15. [1913 Webster] Purify both yourselves and your captives. -- Num. xxxi. 19. [1913 Webster] (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

purify v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify] 3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

125 Moby Thesaurus words for "purify": abate, abrade, absolve, abstract, acquit, atone, bate, beatify, bleach, bless, bolt, bowdlerize, canonize, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, consecrate, curtail, decontaminate, decrassify, decrease, dedicate, deduct, delouse, depreciate, depurate, derogate, deterge, detract, devote, diminish, disinfect, disparage, distill, drain, dry-clean, dust, dust off, eat away, edulcorate, elute, enshrine, erode, essentialize, exalt, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, expiate, expurgate, extract, file away, filter, filtrate, forgive, freshen, fumigate, glorify, hallow, impair, leach, lessen, lixiviate, lustrate, narrow, oversimplify, pardon, percolate, purge, rectify, redeem, reduce, reduce to elements, refine, reform, remit, remove, restrain, retrench, rub away, saint, sanctify, sanitize, scavenge, screen, separate, set apart, shorten, shrive, sieve, sift, simplify, spiritualize, spruce, steam-clean, strain, streamline, strip down, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtract, sweep out, sweeten, take away, take from, thin, thin out, tidy, try, wash, wear away, weed, whiten, winnow, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, withdraw
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Purify A debugging tool from Pure Software.