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 pu·ri·fy /ˈpjʊrəˌfaɪ/
 (vt.)使純淨,使潔淨;使道德上淨化;精煉,提純

 Pu·ri·fy, v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.
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 Pu·ri·fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purified p. pr. & vb. n. Purifying ]
 1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air.
 2. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
 And fit them so
 Purified to receive him pure.   --Milton.
 (b) To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
    And Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, . . . and purified the altar.   --Lev. viii. 15.
    Purify both yourselves and your captives.   -- Num. xxxi. 19.
 (c) To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify a language.

 purify
      v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and
           separate through the process of distillation; "purify
           the water" [syn: sublimate, make pure, distill]
      2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery
         purified" [syn: purge, sanctify]
      3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies
         came to the ashram in order to purify"
      [also: purified]