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# purify

«purify» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something pure by removing dirt, germs or harmful…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (purify, purifies, purified, purifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something pure by removing dirt, germs or harmful things: «Boil the water to purify it.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#m1)

2) (religion, church) To make someone spiritually clean, free from sin or guilt: «Christians believe God can purify people's hearts.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#m2)

3) (science) To separate a substance from a mixture so it is pure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons we purify water by filtering, boiling or evaporating; in everyday life air purifiers clean the air indoors; in religious education people purify themselves by washing, prayer or fasting. Phrases: «purify water», «purify the air», «purify the heart».

### examples

- We purified muddy water with sand and charcoal filters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x1)
- Boiling water for one minute helps to purify it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x2)
- Plants help to purify the air in a room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x3)
- In the Bible, people washed to purify themselves before worship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x4)
- Scientists purified the salt by evaporating the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x5)
- The tablets purify water from streams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x6)
- During this festival it was customary for shepherds to ignite a mass of straw, through which they rushed with their flocks, believing that this ordeal would purify them from sin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/#x7)

### note

Spelling: purify, purifies, purified (y changes to i before -es and -ed), purifying (keeps y). Nouns: purification, purity. Purifying water by boiling kills germs but does not remove salt or poison.

### In the corpora

- [And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.388/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purify» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purify/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.