purify
verb (used with object)
to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates.
was purifying
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past progressiveof purify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I felt that for those six days, the candle itself was purifying me of any shame, anger, sadness, grief or disillusionment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Bottled water was trucked in to the area, and the Ohio National Guard was purifying water for the residents, the Associated Press reports.
From Time ● Aug. 4, 2014
His influence was purifying, encouraging, uplifting, and upon the whole conservative; had he lived a hundred years later, he would not have been found by the side of Adams, Patrick Henry, and James Otis.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Hawthorne, Julian
It was pointed out to him that his little band of companions had been growing smaller and smaller; he only answered that he was purifying a fountain and not a stream.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
Every change in her life was purifying her; it hardly could raise her.
From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
