purify

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English

Etymology

From Old French purifier, from Latin pūrificō, pūrificāre, from pūrus (“pure; clean”).

Verb

purify (third-person singular simple present purifies, present participle purifying, simple past and past participle purified)

1. (transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
2. (transitive) To free from guilt or sin.

Antonyms

• defile

Related terms

• pure
• purification
• purism
• purist
• puritan
• purity

Translations

cleanse something of impurities

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: صَفَّى‎ (ṣaffā)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: purificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使純淨, 使纯净 (shǐ chúnjìng), 使潔淨, 使洁净 (shǐ jiéjìng), 純化 (zh), 纯化 (zh) (chúnhuà)

• Dutch: zuiveren (nl)
• Esperanto: purigi
• Finnish: puhdistaa (fi)
• French: purifier (fr)
• Galician: purificar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: reinigen (de)
• Greek: εξαγνίζω (el) (exagnízo)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: megtisztít (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: purigar (io)

• Italian: purificare (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: abluō
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakaparakore, whakahoromata
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: خالص کردن‎ (fa) (xâles kardan), پالودن‎ (fa) (pâludan)
• Portuguese: purificar (pt)
• Russian: очища́ть (ru) impf (očiščátʹ), очи́стить (ru) pf (očístitʹ)
• Spanish: purificar (es)
• Swahili: takasa (sw)
• Swedish: rena (sv)
• Thai: ทำให้บริสุทธิ์, ชำระล้าง
• Tibetan: ལྷད་མེད་བཟོས (lhad med bzos)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: teru

free someone from guilt or sin

• Dutch: reinigen (nl)
• French: purifier (fr)
• German: rein machen

• Hungarian: megtisztít (hu), feloldoz (hu)
• Ngazidja Comorian: utwahirisha
• Swahili: kusafisha