Verb

• S: (v) purify, sublimate, make pure, distill (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation) "purify the water"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) refine, rectify (reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities) "refine sugar"
• S: (v) purge (rid of impurities) "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
• verb group
• domain category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate (to make better) "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
• S: (v) relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage (provide physical relief, as from pain) "This pill will relieve your headaches"
• S: (v) help, aid (improve the condition of) "These pills will help the patient"
• S: (v) regenerate, revitalize (restore strength) "This food revitalized the patient"
• S: (v) enrich (make better or improve in quality) "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods"
• S: (v) build up, develop (change the use of and make available or usable) "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
• S: (v) turn around (improve dramatically) "The new strategy turned around sales"; "The tutor turned around my son's performance in math"
• S: (v) help (improve; change for the better) "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"
• S: (v) upgrade (to improve what was old or outdated) "I've upgraded my computer so I can run better software"; "The company upgraded their personnel"
• S: (v) condition (put into a better state) "he conditions old cars"
• S: (v) emend (make improvements or corrections to) "the text was emended in the second edition"
• S: (v) iron out, straighten out, put right (settle or put right) "we need to iron out our disagreements"
• S: (v) enhance (make better or more attractive) "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"
• S: (v) repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken) "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
• S: (v) reform (make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices) "reform a political system"
• S: (v) reform (improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition) "reform the health system in this country"
• S: (v) fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify (make more beautiful)
• S: (v) build (improve the cleansing action of) "build detergents"
• S: (v) perfect, hone (make perfect or complete) "perfect your French in Paris!"
• S: (v) polish, refine, fine-tune, down (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing) "refine one's style of writing"
• S: (v) purify, sublimate, make pure, distill (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation) "purify the water"
• S: (v) fructify (make productive or fruitful) "The earth that he fructified"
• S: (v) raise, lift (invigorate or heighten) "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
• S: (v) advance (develop further) "We are advancing technology every day"
• S: (v) upgrade (give better travel conditions to) "The airline upgraded me when I arrived late and Coach Class was full"
• S: (v) educate (give an education to) "We must educate our youngsters better"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) purify, purge, sanctify (make pure or free from sin or guilt) "he left the monastery purified"
• S: (v) purify (become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin) "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"