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单词 impure
释义
impureim‧pure /ɪmˈpjʊə $ -ˈpjʊr/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • impure drugs
  • New laws restrict the sale of impure chemicals.
  • The last sample was impure and quite useless for manufacturing purposes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Brethren, a branch that believed in keeping itself pure of false doctrine by avoiding association with the impure.
  • Even more important is the statement that nothing can be done to aid the unjust and impure after death.
  • Nothing impure could touch his lasting image of Regine.
  • She considers thin distinction between the pure and the impure an essential part of social order.
  • This latter case is analogous to the melting of a highly impure crystal.
  • Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatornot pure
a substance that is impure is not pure and contains other substances: · New laws restrict the sale of impure chemicals.· The last sample was impure and quite useless for manufacturing purposes.
something in a substance which should not be in it and which makes it not pure: · Lime is added to the liquid metal to remove all the impurities .· There were impurities in the aluminum.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounpurificationpuristpurityimpuritypurifieradjectivepureimpureverbpurifyadverbpurely
1not pure or clean, and often consisting of a mixture of things instead of just one OPP  pure:  drug dealers selling impure heroin2old-fashioned impure thoughts, feelings etc are morally bad because they are about sex – sometimes used humorously:  He tried, without success, to rid his mind of any impure thoughts about Julia.
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