What is another word for purify?
807 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pjˈʊɹɪfˌa͡ɪ], [ pjˈʊɹɪfˌaɪ], [ p_j_ˈʊ_ɹ_ɪ_f_ˌaɪ]
Purify is a word that means "to cleanse" or "to make pure." There are many synonyms for this word, including cleanse, sanitize, disinfect, decontaminate, sterilize, and filter. All of these words describe a process of removing impurities, pollutants, or contaminants from something. Cleansing implies removing dirt or grime, while sanitizing typically involves killing bacteria and germs. Disinfecting also kills harmful microorganisms, but is more powerful than sanitizing. Decontaminating is used for removing hazardous materials, such as chemicals or radioactive substances. Sterilizing is the process of killing all living organisms, including bacteria and viruses. Filtering removes impurities from liquids or gases. Overall, purifying is an important process for maintaining cleanliness and safety in many different settings.
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Similar words for purify:
- make pure (noun)
- purify (noun)
- air (verb)
- baptize (verb)
- censor (verb)
- change (verb)
- clean (verb)
- cleanse (verb)
- clear (verb)
- decontaminate (verb)
- deodorize (verb)
- disinfect (verb)
- distill (verb)
- exorcise (verb)
- expurgate (verb)
- filter (verb)
- free; make clean (verb)
- freshen (verb)
- fumigate (verb)
- improve (verb)
- purge (verb)
- purify (verb)
- sanitize (verb)
- sift (verb)
- simplify (verb)
- sterilize (verb)
- unblock (verb)
- unify (verb)
- unsex (verb)
Synonyms for Purify:
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- anoint ,
- blessing ,
- celebrant ,
- ceremony ,
- chasten ,
- circumcise ,
- circumcision ,
- confession ,
- contemplation .
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v.
• air- aerified ,
- aerifying ,
- air condition ,
- air conditioned ,
- air-conditions ,
- aircondition ,
- airconditioned ,
- airconditioning ,
- airconditions ,
- ex pose ,
- ex posed ,
- ex posing ,
- ex-pose ,
- ex-posed ,
- ex-posing ,
- re fresh ,
- re freshed ,
- re freshes ,
- re-fresh ,
- re-freshed ,
- re-freshes .
- be sprinkle ,
- be sprinkled ,
- be sprinkles ,
- be sprinkling ,
- be-sprinkle ,
- be-sprinkled ,
- be-sprinkles ,
- be-sprinkling ,
- de nominate ,
- de nominated ,
- de nominates ,
- de nominating ,
- de-nominate ,
- de-nominated ,
- de-nominates ,
- de-nominating ,
- re generate ,
- re generated ,
- re generates ,
- re generating ,
- re-generate ,
- re-generated ,
- re-generates ,
- re-generating .
- Exscinded ,
- Exscinding ,
- blue penciled ,
- blue penciling ,
- blue pencilled ,
- blue pencilling ,
- blue pencils ,
- blue-penciled ,
- blue-pencilled ,
- blue-pencilling ,
- bluepencil ,
- bluepenciled ,
- bluepenciling ,
- bluepencilled ,
- bluepencilling ,
- bluepencils ,
- cleaning up ,
- drop iron curtain ,
- dropped iron curtain ,
- dropped the iron curtain ,
- dropping iron curtain ,
- dropping the iron curtain ,
- drops iron curtain ,
- drops the iron curtain ,
- dropt iron curtain ,
- dropt the iron curtain ,
- exscinds ,
- in spect ,
- in spects ,
- in-spect ,
- in-spects ,
- over saw ,
- over see ,
- over seeing ,
- over seen ,
- over sees ,
- over-saw ,
- over-see ,
- over-seeing ,
- over-seen ,
- over-sees ,
- prevented publication ,
- preventing publication ,
- prevents publication ,
- puts lid on ,
- puts the lid on ,
- putting lid on ,
- putting the lid on ,
- re press ,
- re pressed ,
- re presses ,
- re pressing ,
- re strain ,
- re strained ,
- re straining ,
- re strains ,
- re strict ,
- re view ,
- re viewed ,
- re viewing ,
- re views ,
- re vile ,
- re-press ,
- re-presses ,
- re-pressing ,
- re-strain ,
- re-strained ,
- re-straining ,
- re-strains ,
- re-strict ,
- re-view ,
- re-viewed ,
- re-viewing ,
- re-views ,
- re-vile ,
- refused transmission ,
- refuses transmission ,
- refusing transmission ,
- scissored out ,
- scissoring out ,
- scissors out ,
- supervised communications ,
- supervises communications ,
- supervising communications ,
- with held ,
- with hold ,
- with holding ,
- with holds ,
- with-held ,
- with-hold ,
- with-holds .
- Re-store ,
- depurgated ,
- depurgates ,
- depurgating ,
- re store ,
- re stored ,
- re stores ,
- re storing ,
- re-stored ,
- re-stores ,
- re-storing .
- burned off ,
- burning off ,
- burns off ,
- burnt off ,
- dis encumber ,
- dis encumbered ,
- dis encumbering ,
- dis encumbers ,
- dis engage ,
- dis engaged ,
- dis engages ,
- dis engaging ,
- dis entangle ,
- dis entangled ,
- dis entangles ,
- dis entangling ,
- dis-encumber ,
- dis-encumbered ,
- dis-encumbering ,
- dis-encumbers ,
- dis-engage ,
- dis-engaged ,
- dis-engages ,
- dis-engaging ,
- dis-entangle ,
- dis-entangled ,
- dis-entangles ,
- dis-entangling ,
- un burden ,
- un burdened ,
- un burdening ,
- un burdens ,
- un clog ,
- un clogged ,
- un clogging ,
- un clogs ,
- un load ,
- un loaded ,
- un loading ,
- un loads ,
- un loose ,
- un loosed ,
- un looses ,
- un loosing ,
- un pack ,
- un packed ,
- un packing ,
- un packs ,
- un tied ,
- un tying ,
- un-burden ,
- un-burdened ,
- un-burdening ,
- un-burdens ,
- un-clog ,
- un-clogged ,
- un-clogging ,
- un-clogs ,
- un-load ,
- un-loaded ,
- un-loading ,
- un-loads ,
- un-loose ,
- un-loosed ,
- un-looses ,
- un-loosing ,
- un-pack ,
- un-packed ,
- un-packing ,
- un-packs ,
- un-tied ,
- un-tying ,
- unclogs .
- antiseptized ,
- antiseptizes ,
- antiseptizing ,
- de contaminate ,
- de contaminated ,
- de contaminates ,
- de contaminating ,
- de-contaminate ,
- de-contaminated ,
- de-contaminates ,
- de-contaminating ,
- made sterile ,
- makes sterile ,
- making sterile .
- de odorize ,
- de odorized ,
- de odorizes ,
- de odorizing ,
- de pollute ,
- de polluted ,
- de pollutes ,
- de polluting ,
- de-odorize ,
- de-odorized ,
- de-odorizes ,
- de-odorizing ,
- de-pollute ,
- de-polluted ,
- de-pollutes ,
- de-polluting ,
- depolluted ,
- depollutes ,
- depolluting .
- antisepticized ,
- antisepticizes ,
- antisepticizing ,
- dis infect ,
- dis infected ,
- dis infecting ,
- dis infects ,
- dis-infect ,
- dis-infected ,
- dis-infecting ,
- dis-infects .
- boiled down ,
- boiling down ,
- co oked ,
- co oking ,
- co-oked ,
- co-oking ,
- cut bone ,
- cut the bone ,
- cuts bone ,
- cuts the bone ,
- cuts to bone ,
- cuts to the bone ,
- cutting bone ,
- cutting the bone ,
- cutting to bone ,
- cutting to the bone ,
- dis till ,
- dis tilled ,
- dis tilling ,
- dis tills ,
- dis-till ,
- dis-tilled ,
- dis-tilling ,
- dis-tills ,
- ex press ,
- ex pressed ,
- ex pressing ,
- ex tract ,
- ex-press ,
- ex-pressing ,
- ex-tract ,
- ex-tracts ,
- gat meat ,
- gat the meat ,
- gat to meat ,
- gat to the meat ,
- get meat ,
- get the meat ,
- gets meat ,
- gets the meat ,
- gets to meat ,
- gets to the meat ,
- getting meat ,
- getting the meat ,
- getting to meat ,
- getting to the meat ,
- got meat ,
- got the meat ,
- got to meat ,
- got to the meat ,
- gotten meat ,
- gotten the meat ,
- gotten to meat ,
- gotten to the meat ,
- in fuse ,
- in fused ,
- in fuses ,
- in fusing ,
- in-fuse ,
- in-fused ,
- in-fuses ,
- in-fusing ,
- pressed out ,
- presses out ,
- squeezed out ,
- squeezes out .
- casts out ,
- dis missed ,
- dis missing ,
- dis-missed ,
- dis-missing ,
- drave out ,
- drove out ,
- re move ,
- re moved ,
- re moving ,
- re-move ,
- re-moves ,
- re-moving .
- Osmoses ,
- metastasizes ,
- metastasizing ,
- osmosed ,
- osmosing ,
- soaked through ,
- soaking through ,
- soaks through .
- absolve ,
- aerate ,
- atone ,
- clarify ,
- exculpate ,
- exonerate ,
- expiate ,
- oxygenate ,
- rarify ,
- refine ,
- remit ,
- shrive .
- Re-forming ,
- came around ,
- comes around ,
- coming around ,
- doctored up ,
- doctoring up ,
- doctors up ,
- in crease ,
- in creases ,
- in creasing ,
- in-crease ,
- in-creased ,
- in-creases ,
- made strides ,
- makes strides ,
- making strides ,
- pro moting ,
- pro-mote ,
- pro-motes ,
- pro-moting ,
- re cover ,
- re covered ,
- re covering ,
- re covers ,
- re form ,
- re formed ,
- re forming ,
- re forms ,
- re vamp ,
- re vamped ,
- re vamping ,
- re vamps ,
- re vise ,
- re vised ,
- re vising ,
- re-covered ,
- re-covering ,
- re-covers ,
- re-forms ,
- re-vamp ,
- re-vamped ,
- re-vamping ,
- re-vamps ,
- re-vise ,
- re-vised ,
- re-vising ,
- sets right ,
- shapes up ,
- shaping up ,
- straightens out ,
- turn corner ,
- turned corner ,
- turned the corner ,
- turning corner ,
- turning the corner ,
- turns corner ,
- turns the corner ,
- up date ,
- up dated ,
- up dates ,
- up dating ,
- up grade ,
- up graded ,
- up grades ,
- up grading ,
- up-date ,
- up-dated ,
- up-dates ,
- up-dating ,
- up-graded ,
- up-grades ,
- up-grading .
- dis abuse ,
- dis abused ,
- dis abuses ,
- dis abusing ,
- dis-abuse ,
- dis-abused ,
- dis-abuses ,
- dis-abusing ,
- ex crete ,
- ex cretes ,
- ex terminate ,
- ex terminated ,
- ex terminates ,
- ex terminating ,
- ex-crete ,
- ex-cretes ,
- ex-terminate ,
- ex-terminated ,
- ex-terminates ,
- ex-terminating ,
- pre vent ,
- pre venting ,
- pre vents ,
- pre-vent ,
- pre-vented ,
- pre-venting ,
- pre-vents ,
- sweeping out ,
- sweeps out ,
- wipe map ,
- wiped map ,
- wiped off map ,
- wipes map ,
- wipes off map ,
- wiping map ,
- wiping off map .
- co lander ,
- co landers ,
- co-lander ,
- co-landers ,
- delve in to ,
- delved in to ,
- delved into ,
- delves in to ,
- delves into ,
- delving in to ,
- delving into ,
- dig in to ,
- digged in to ,
- digged into ,
- digging in to ,
- digging into ,
- digs in to ,
- digs into ,
- dug in to ,
- dug into ,
- go in to ,
- in quire ,
- in quired ,
- in quires ,
- in quiring ,
- in-quire ,
- in-quired ,
- in-quires ,
- in-quiring ,
- pored over ,
- pores over ,
- pro bed ,
- pro spect ,
- pro spects ,
- pro-bed ,
- pro-spects .
- auto clave ,
- auto claves ,
- auto-clave ,
- auto-claves ,
- autoclaves ,
- de sexualize ,
- de sexualized ,
- de sexualizes ,
- de sexualizing ,
- de-sexualize ,
- de-sexualized ,
- de-sexualizes ,
- de-sexualizing ,
- in capacitate ,
- in capacitated ,
- in capacitates ,
- in capacitating ,
- in-capacitate ,
- in-capacitated ,
- in-capacitating ,
- pasteurizes .
Other synonyms:
- decontaminate ,
- heal ,
- lustrate .
- religion .
Other relevant words:
- Disinfect ,
- Exscind ,
- Filtrated ,
- Filtrating ,
- Oozed ,
- Osmose ,
- Overseeing ,
- Titivated ,
- Titivating ,
- Voided ,
- air ,
- air out ,
- antisepticize ,
- antiseptize ,
- autoclave ,
- autoclaved ,
- autoclaving ,
- baptize ,
- bleep ,
- bleep out ,
- bleeped ,
- bleeping ,
- bleeps ,
- blipped ,
- blue pencil ,
- blue-pencil ,
- blue-penciling ,
- blue-pencils ,
- boil down ,
- boils down ,
- burn off ,
- censor ,
- clean ,
- clean up ,
- cleaned up ,
- cleans up ,
- cleanse ,
- clear ,
- colandered ,
- colandering ,
- corked ,
- corking ,
- cut to bone ,
- cut to the bone ,
- delve into ,
- deodorize ,
- depurgate ,
- desexualize ,
- desexualized ,
- desexualizes ,
- desexualizing ,
- dig into ,
- distill ,
- drop the iron curtain ,
- exorcise ,
- expiates ,
- expurgate ,
- filter ,
- filtrate ,
- filtrates ,
- freshen ,
- fumigate ,
- get to meat ,
- get to the meat ,
- improve ,
- infuse ,
- lose ,
- made sanitary ,
- make sanitary ,
- make sterile ,
- metastasize ,
- metastasized ,
- optimize ,
- oversees ,
- pasteurize ,
- pasteurized ,
- pasteurizing ,
- pore over ,
- poring over ,
- press out ,
- pressing out ,
- prevent publication ,
- purge ,
- put lid on ,
- put the lid on ,
- refuse transmission ,
- revile ,
- reviled ,
- sanctify ,
- sanitize ,
- scissor out ,
- set apart ,
- sets apart ,
- setting apart ,
- shake off ,
- shakes off ,
- sieved ,
- sieving ,
- sift ,
- sifting ,
- sized ,
- sizing ,
- soak through ,
- spay ,
- squeeze out ,
- squeezing out ,
- steam ,
- steamed ,
- sterilize ,
- strain ,
- supervise communications ,
- suppress ,
- sweep out ,
- swept out ,
- titivate ,
- unblock ,
- unburden ,
- unburdened ,
- unburdening ,
- unburdens ,
- unclog ,
- unclogged ,
- unclogging ,
- wipe off map ,
- withhold ,
- withholds .
- Ejected ,
- aerifies ,
- aerify ,
- air conditions ,
- air-condition ,
- air-conditioned ,
- air-conditioning ,
- ventilate ,
- ventilated .
- Absterge ,
- Depurate ,
- Depurated ,
- Depurating ,
- Deterging ,
- Edulcorated ,
- Edulcorating ,
- Elutriate ,
- Elutriating ,
- Hackled ,
- Hackling ,
- Shampooed ,
- Shampooing ,
- Soaped ,
- Soaping ,
- clear decks ,
- depurates ,
- deterge ,
- edulcorate ,
- edulcorates ,
- expunge ,
- hackle ,
- hackles ,
- rout out ,
- routing out ,
- shake out ,
- shampoo ,
- shampoos ,
- soap ,
- straighten up ,
- straightened up ,
- straightens up ,
- tidied up ,
- tidy up ,
- tidying up ,
- vacuumed ,
- vacuuming ,
- winnow ,
- winnowing .
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How to use "Purify" in context?
Purify means to cleanse or free from impurity. There are many different ways to purify something. One way is to use a solvent to break down the cements, stains, and other impurities that have built up. Other ways include using a sandpaper or scrub brush to remove the surface grime, and using a gas or water purification system to eliminate harmful contaminants.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
purifying.
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Noun, singular or mass
purification.
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Verb, base form
cleanse.
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Hyponym for Purify:
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thinkingly
- Synonyms:
- intelligently, meditatively, pensively, reflectively, thoughtfully, Contemplatively, fancily, Ponderingly.
