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purifying 音标拼音: [pj'ʊrəf ,ɑɪɪŋ] 纯化 纯化 purifying adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; " purgatorial rites" [ synonym: { purgatorial}, { purging}, { purifying}] 2: freeing from noxious matter; " filtration is a purifying agent" [ ant: { adulterant}, { adulterating}] 3: acting like an antiseptic [ synonym: { cleansing}, { purifying}] Purify \ Pu" ri* fy\ ( p[= u]" r[ i^]* f[ imac]), v. t. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, in figurative uses: ( a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart. [ 1913 Webster] And fit them so Purified to receive him pure. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] ( b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement. [ 1913 Webster] And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar. -- Lev. viii. 15. [ 1913 Webster] Purify both yourselves and your captives. -- Num. xxxi. 19. [ 1913 Webster] ( c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language. -- Sprat. [ 1913 Webster] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for " purifying": abstergent, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, cathartic, cleaning, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, depurative, detergent, diuretic, emetic, expiatory, expurgatory, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, penitential, piacular, propitiatory, purgative, purgatorial, purging, purificatory, reclamatory, recompensing, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, satisfactional, squaring
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