purify

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

VerbEdit

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.

AntonymsEdit

• defile

Related termsEdit

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

TranslationsEdit

cleanse something of impurities

• Arabic: صَفَّى‎‎ (ṣaffā)
• 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)
• Finnish: puhdistaa (fi)
• French: purifier (fr)
• Galician: purificar
• German: reinigen (de)
• Greek: εξαγνίζω (el) (exagnízo)
• Ido: purigar (io)

• Italian: purificare (it)
• Latin: abluō
• Maori: whakaparakore, whakahoromata
• 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)
• Welsh: teru

free someone from guilt or sin

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

• Ngazidja Comorian: utwahirisha
• Swahili: kusafisha