 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purify
verb
1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and
separate through the process of distillation; "purify
the water" [syn: {sublimate}, {make pure}, {distill}]
2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
purified" [syn: {purge}, {sanctify}]
3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies
came to the ashram in order to purify"
[also: {purified}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\ (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Purified} (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Purifying} (p[=u]"r[i^]*f[imac]"[i^]ng).] [F. purifier, L.
purificare; purus pure + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See
{Pure}, and {-fy}.]
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture,
or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious
matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the
blood; to purify the air.
2. Hence, in figurative uses:
(a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify
the heart.
And fit them so
Purified to receive him pure. --Milton.
(b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the
horns of the altar, . . . and purified the
altar. --Lev. viii.
15.
Purify both yourselves and your captives. --
Num. xxxi. 19.
(c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to
purify a language. --Sprat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purify \Pu"ri*fy\, verb (used without an object)
To grow or become pure or clear.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "purify":
abate, abrade, absolve, abstract, acquit, atone, bate, beatify,
bleach, bless, bolt, bowdlerize, canonize, chasten, clarify, clean,
clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, consecrate,
curtail, decontaminate, decrassify, decrease, dedicate, deduct,
delouse, depreciate, depurate, derogate, deterge, detract, devote,
diminish, disinfect, disparage, distill, drain, dry-clean, dust,
dust off, eat away, edulcorate, elute, enshrine, erode,
essentialize, exalt, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, expiate,
expurgate, extract, file away, filter, filtrate, forgive, freshen,
fumigate, glorify, hallow, impair, leach, lessen, lixiviate,
lustrate, narrow, oversimplify, pardon, percolate, purge, rectify,
redeem, reduce, reduce to elements, refine, reform, remit, remove,
restrain, retrench, rub away, saint, sanctify, sanitize, scavenge,
screen, separate, set apart, shorten, shrive, sieve, sift,
simplify, spiritualize, spruce, steam-clean, strain, streamline,
strip down, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtract, sweep out,
sweeten, take away, take from, thin, thin out, tidy, try, wash,
wear away, weed, whiten, winnow, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up,
withdraw
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Purify
A debugging tool from Pure Software.
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