purify

purify is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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. transitive verb. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
3. transitive verb. To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
4. transitive verb. To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.
5. intransitive verb. To grow or become pure or clear.
6. verb. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

   "purify the water"

   Synonyms: distill, sublimate

7. verb. make pure or free from sin or guilt

   "he left the monastery purified"

   Synonyms: purge, sanctify

8. verb. become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin

   "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

Synonyms

distill, sublimate, purge, sanctify

Common word forms

purified, purifier, purifies, purifying

Words from these letters

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