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Definitions for Purify

[1] to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
[2] to free from foreign, extraneous, or objectionable elements: to purify a language.
[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.
[6] to become pure.
[7] to free (something) of extraneous, contaminating, or debasing matter
[8] (tr) to free (a person, etc) from sin or guilt
[9] (tr) to make clean, as in a ritual, esp the churching of women after childbirth

Words related to Purify

absolve, atone, wash, lustrate, fumigate, expiate, purge, decontaminate, sanitize, exculpate, aerate, oxygenate, clarify, redeem, shrive, cleanse, exonerate, chasten, sublimate, deodorize

Words nearby Purify

purification of the virgin mary, purificator, purified protein derivative of tuberculin, purifier, puriform, purify, purim, purine, puriri, purism, puritan

Origin of Purify

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

Other words from Purify

pu·ri·fi·ca·tion , noun
pu·rif·i·ca·to·ry [pyoo -rif -i-kuh -tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /pyʊˈrɪf ɪ kəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/ , adjective
pu·ri·fi·er , noun
non·pu·ri·fi·ca·tion , noun
non·pu·ri·fy·ing , adjective
re·pu·ri·fi·ca·tion , noun
re·pu·ri·fy , verb, re·pu·ri·fied, re·pu·ri·fy·ing.
self-pu·ri·fy·ing , adjective
un·pu·ri·fied , adjective
un·pu·ri·fy·ing , adjective

Word origin for Purify

C14: from Old French purifier, from Late Latin pūrificāre to cleanse, from pūrus pure + facere to make

Synonyms for Purify

absolve, aerate, aerify, atone, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, deodorize, deterge, disinfect, edulcorate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, filter, fumigate, lustrate, oxygenate, purge, rarify, redeem, refine, remit, sanctify, sanitize, shrive, sublimate, wash, depurate, elutriate