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Adjective purifying has 3 senses
- purgatorial, purging, purifying - serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
- purifying - freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent"
Antonyms: adulterating, adulterant, extraneous, foreign
- cleansing, purifying - acting like an antiseptic
Antonym: septic (indirect, via antiseptic)
Verb purify has 3 senses
- 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
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- purify, purge, sanctify - make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- 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
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