purifying

Definitions

The act of removing contaminants, pollutants, or impurities from a substance.

The process of cleansing or clearing something of moral or spiritual corruption.

Examples

The monks spent the morning purifying the temple with incense and prayer.

She installed a new filtration system for purifying the water in her home.

Synonyms

cleansing clarifying refining sanitizing distilling filtering purging

Antonyms

polluting contaminating corrupting tainting adulterating fouling defiling