purify
verb (used with object)
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
purified
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past participleof purify.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof purify.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
purifyverb (used with object)to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
Example Sentences
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The Metropolitan Water District already is planning a large new facility in Carson to transform wastewater into purified drinking water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
To better understand how this system works, researchers recreated it outside living cells using purified components.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
It did so, nominating thousands of ingredients, including, for example, purified water and asparagus.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026
It’s a sprawling tale of divine corruption and human treachery that ends with the world being purified by fire and flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
I wanted to give him some of the purified water, but he was drinking like the bonobos in the sanctuary did, and I figured his system was more tolerant than mine.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
