meaning of purify
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.
3. To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
4. To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
5. To grow or become pure or clear.
6. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the
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