| 单词 | purify |
| 释义 | purify (once / 576 pages) v To purify something is to remove dirt, chemicals, or anything else that it's contaminated with. You might decide to purify your tap water if it tastes like chlorine. While scientists purify various chemicals during experiments, the substance that people most often purify is water. Water needs to be treated before it's safe to drink, and cities purify the water they send out to people's houses. You can also use the verb purify in a figurative way, to mean "make ritually or religiously clean or pure." This is the word's earliest meaning, from the Latin root purificare, "to make pure." WORD FAMILYpurify: purification, purified, purifier, purifies, purifying+/purification: purifications/purified: unpurified/purifier: purifiers/purifying: purifyingly USAGE EXAMPLESMendoza brought in an Apache crown dancer to purify the gym, and kept talking with that teenager. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) His young son is purified, dipped naked in the river. Washington Times(Dec 20, 2016) Blood is then extracted from the animal, and the antibodies are purified and formulated for injecting into bite victims. Science Magazine(Dec 20, 2016) 1v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation purify the water Syn|Hypo|Hyper distill, make pure, sublimate distil, distill undergo the process of distillation rectify, refine reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities purgerid of impurities ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 2v make pure or free from sin or guilt he left the monastery purified Syn|Hypo|Hyper purge, sanctify spiritualise, spiritualize purify from the corrupting influences of the world lustratepurify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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