purify
verb (used with object)
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
had purified
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past perfectof purify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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There was high-speed Wi-Fi throughout and a filtration system to ensure that every tap and shower had purified water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2014
Buddha had purified all his karma and escaped the cycle of birth and death due to karma.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2010
Chemists had purified it, changed its consistency and injected it with Vitamin A. They had reduced the size of its water particles so that, when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Job could never have said this, except be had alluded to the powerful influence within him, which had purified his heart from the pollutions of sin.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
But the dowsing of creek water had done more than cleanse his body; in an indefinable way it had purified and stimulated the inner man.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
