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
• verb group
• domain category
• S: (n) chemistry, chemical science (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate (to make better) "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Something ----s something
• 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"