purifying

Thân thiện

The water filter is purifying the clear stream.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Making something clean or pure by removing harmful, dirty, or unwanted substances. This is the core meaning, describing a process or agent that cleanses.
   • Serving to make someone spiritually or morally clean; cleansing from sin. This meaning is often used in religious or moral contexts.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The purifying filter removes contaminants from the drinking water.
  • They installed a purifying system for the swimming pool.
  • The ritual bath had a purifying effect on the worshippers.
  • Many cultures have purifying ceremonies to mark a new beginning.

Advanced Usage

• "purifying agent": a substance or device that causes purification.
  • Activated charcoal is a common purifying agent used in water filters.
• "purifying ritual": a ceremony intended to cleanse spiritually or morally.
  • The purifying ritual was performed before the sacred event.

Variants and Related Words

• Purify (verb): To make pure; to cleanse.
  • The goal is to purify the air in the building.
• Purification (noun): The process of making something pure.
  • Water purification is essential for public health.
• Purifier (noun): A device or substance that purifies.
  • We bought an air purifier for the office.

Synonyms

• Cleansing: Making clean.
• Filtering: Passing through a device to remove impurities.
• Detoxifying: Removing toxic substances.
• Sanitizing: Making sanitary by cleaning or disinfecting.
• Purging: Ridding of an unwanted feeling, quality, or condition.

Related Phrases

• To undergo purification: To experience a purifying process.
  • The metal must undergo purification before it can be used.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. acting like an antiseptic
2. freeing from noxious matter
   • filtration is a purifying agent
3. serving to purge or rid of sin
   • purgatorial rites

Từ đồng nghĩa

• cleansing
• purgatorial
• purging