Wordnet Dictionary

Welcome

Wordnet Dictionary
Adjective purifying has 3 senses
  1. purgatorial, purging, purifying - serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
  2. purifying - freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent"
    Antonyms:     adulterating, adulterant, extraneous, foreign
  3. cleansing, purifying - acting like an antiseptic
    Antonym: septic (indirect, via antiseptic)
,Verb purify has 3 senses
  1. purify, sublimate, make pure, distill - remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
    --1 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
    Derived forms: noun purification2, noun purification1, noun purity1, noun purifier1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. purify, purge, sanctify - make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
    --2 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun purification3, noun purity2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. purify - become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
    --3 is one way to     change
    Derived form: noun purification4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
,
TOP