Crossword-Solution: PURIFY 6 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Purify v. t. 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.
Purify v. t. Hence, in figurative uses: (a) To free from guilt or
moral defilement; as, to purify the heart.
Purify v. t. To free from ceremonial or legal defilement.
Purify v. t. To free from improprieties or barbarisms; as, to purify
a language.
Purify v. i. To grow or become pure or clear.

We have 55 clues for the answer “PURIFY”

Clue Answers
remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation 1 answer
make pure or free from sin or guilt 1 answer
make or become pure 1 answer
Opposite of pollute 1 answer
Filter for drinking, as water 1 answer
Removed impurities 2 answers
lustrate 2 answers
depurate 3 answers
DEFAECATE 3 answers
APPLY fumes to 4 answers
Sanitise 4 answers
DEPRAVE (ant.) 4 answers
ASPERGE 5 answers
DEFLOWER (ant.) 5 answers
rarefy 6 answers
fumigate 6 answers
Sanitize 6 answers
MAKE slender 7 answers
LESSEN solubility of 7 answers
DESECRATE (ant.) 7 answers
MAKE thin 8 answers
circumcise 8 answers
DEFILE (ant.) 9 answers
disinfect 10 answers
flow through 12 answers
Percolate 15 answers
deodorise 15 answers
MAKE finer 15 answers
Expurgate 18 answers
Aerate 19 answers
Seep 24 answers
panegyrise 30 answers
Rid 32 answers
Canonise 32 answers
filtrate 34 answers
Decontaminate 34 answers
beatify 35 answers
Launder 37 answers
Sanctify 38 answers
irradiate 38 answers
compliment 43 answers
MAKE plain 44 answers
Laud 44 answers
Provide 45 answers
Purge 45 answers
chasten 52 answers
Commend 55 answers
meliorate 55 answers
Cleanse 55 answers
regenerate 57 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with PURIFY (5)

The old people in the mountains plant lindens to purify the forest, and to do away with the spells that come from the old trees they say have lasted from heathen times.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Coloring Back Grounds—Transparent ditto—Gilding Dissolvent Solution for removing Specks—Solarized Impression—To Purify Water—Cleaning Mercury—Adhesive Paper—Black Stain for Apparatus—Sealing Wax for Bottles—Rouge—Rotten Stone—Potassa Solution—Hyposulphite Solution—Substitute for do.—Gilding Solution—Solution for increasing the Brilliancy of the Daguerreotype—Bleaching Solution;—Cold Gilding—Neutralizing Agents—Buff Dryer—Keeping Buffs in order—Cleaning Buckskins—Reflector for taking Views.
American Handbook of the Daguerrotype Samuel D. Humphrey 1994
However, as in most religions there are ceremonies that purify, so in this case the sacrament of marriage is supposed to have reconstructed these wives and made them genealogically whole.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
The third time he seemed to hear soft singing from within the lodge; and the fourth time a voice exclaimed: “Brother, let me out!” (It should be noted that the number four is the magic or sacred number of the Indian.) This story gives the traditional origin of the “eneepee,” which has ever since been deemed essential to the Indian’s effort to purify and recreate his spirit.
The Soul of the Indian [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman 2008
Had he ever been to see Lady Glenmire at Mrs Jamieson’s? Chloride of lime would not purify the house in its owner’s estimation if he had.
Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1995

Quotes with PURIFY (3)

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.
John O. Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.
Allen R. Hunt Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor: How I Discovered the Hidden Treasures of the Catholic Church
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (2008–2017).