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Topic: RELIGION

purify

 verb
     
pu‧ri‧fy past tense and past participle purified, present participle purifying, third person singular purifies [transitive]
1 to remove dirty or harmful substances from something:
chemicals used to purify the water
2RR to make someone pure by removing evil from their soul:
They prayed to God to purify them.
—purification noun [uncountable]
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