purify
pyoo ruh fahy
- v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
purify the water - v make pure or free from sin or guilt
- v become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin
The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify
- In his 1978 breakthrough, Yuen Wo-ping's Drunken Master, Chan played the real-life kung-fu hero Wong Fei-hung as an impish young man in need of a sifu (teacher) who could purify his .
- Merely preaching about the evils of dope is no more likely to purify the school- yard than a Sunday sermon about fallen women is likely to make the congregation chaste.
- There are those ready with solutions, like Abul Hussam, a Bangladeshi chemist who found a simple, life-saving way to purify poisoned water.