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 →

2) (religion, church) To make someone spiritually clean, free from sin or guilt: «Christians believe God can purify people's hearts.» tree →

3) (science) To separate a substance from a mixture so it is pure. tree →

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 →
• Boiling water for one minute helps to purify it. tree →
• Plants help to purify the air in a room. tree →
• In the Bible, people washed to purify themselves before worship. tree →
• Scientists purified the salt by evaporating the water. tree →
• The tablets purify water from streams. tree →
• 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 →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «purify» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.