purify

English

Verb

purify (third-person singular simple present purifies, present participle purifying, simple past and past participle purified)

1. To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities
2. To free (someone) from guilt or sin

Related terms

• pure
• purification
• purism
• purist
• puritan
• purity

Translations

cleanse something of impurities

• Arabic: صفى (ar) (Saffaa)
• Catalan: purificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使純淨, 使纯净 (shǐ chúnjìng), 使潔淨, 使洁净 (shǐ jiéjìng), 純化 (cmn), 纯化 (cmn) (chúnhuà)

• Dutch: reinigen (nl)
• Finnish: puhdistaa (fi)
• French: purifier (fr)

• German: reinigen (de)
• Greek: εξαγνίζω (el) (eksaghnízo)
• Italian: purificare (it)
• Latin: abluō (la)
• Portuguese: purificar (pt)
• Russian: очищать (ru) (očiščát') impf., очистить (ru) (očístit') pf.
• Spanish: purificar (es)
• Swahili: takasa (sw)
• Swedish: rena (sv)