purify

Other forms of purify

past tense or participle

purified

present participle

purifying·

third person

purifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about purify

What does purify mean?

purify means "remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purify?

purify has 3 syllables: pur-i-fy. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpjʊɹəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for purify?

Close synonyms include sublimate, make pure, distill, purge, sanctify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purify a common word?

purify is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with purify?

72 words rhyme with purify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.