The word purify is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to cleansing or refining something, or when referring to making something pure. Example sentence: The monks meditated for hours to purify their minds and souls.
Since then I've picked up a lot of tips – such as taking a tick removal tool, always packing sun cream and carrying the means to purify water.
Those tented revival meetings that were such a feature of southern Protestantism were not intended to win converts so much as to purify and strengthen beliefs that were already there.The Southern Baptist movement, which is strongly associated with the "values voters" who favour the Republicans, has its origins in support for slavery.
"This is totally revolutionary for us," says Mr Otsuki.In Indonesia, Panasonic found that fridges need big compartments to store lots of two-litre water bottles: Indonesians boil water to purify it in the morning and then place it in the fridge to cool.
The 1930s were filled with efforts to purify the race, encourage a high birth rate among the most "Aryan" in the ethnic German population and stamp hard on anything that smacked of race defilement, including abortion, prostitution and homosexuality.There were grim ironies in all this.
Among the foreign clientèle, the vast majority are Asian nationals: Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Japanese men who believe that deflowering a virgin will rejuvenate and purify them.Meeting the demand is a growing number of ethnic Vietnamese a group historically reviled by the ethnic-Khmer majority, but prized by the visitors for their pale complexions.
You want them to... yes, to be available, to purify possibilities again.
Suitably encased bubbles can survive for several minutes before being gobbled up by cells in the liver whose role is to purify the bloodstream.
In recent times, cultural revivalists (see Wednesday's diary) have sought to purify this faith which they call Meitei Marup of its Hindu taint.
Material evidence came in the form of unicorn horns which were said to purify water and cure illnesses.
A constant shower of advertising and health warnings orders you to scrub, cleanse or purify every corner of the body, office or home.
Crafty economists try to get around this problem by calculating "willingness to pay": working out how much money someone would spend to clean the air or purify water.
