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purifying
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free; make clean |
| Synonyms: | absolve, aerate, aerify, atone, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, deodorize, depurate, deterge, disinfect, edulcorate, elutriate, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, filter, fumigate, lustrate, oxygenate, purge, rarify, redeem, refine, remit, sanctify, sanitize, shrive, sublimate, wash |
| Antonyms: | adulterate, corrupt, dirty, pollute |
| Main Entry: | purification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freeing, cleansing |
| Synonyms: | ablution, absolution, atonement, baptism, bathing, catharsis, depuration, disinfection, distillation, expiation, expurgation, forgiveness, grace, lavation, laving, lustration, purgation, purge, purifying, rarefaction, rebirth, redemption, refinement, regeneration, salvation, sanctification, washing |
| Antonyms: | adulteration, corruption, dirtying, pollution |
| Main Entry: | remedial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, restorative |
| Synonyms: | alleviative, antidotal, antiseptic, corrective, curative, curing, health-giving, healthful, invigorating, medicating, medicinal, purifying, recuperative, reformative, remedying, repairing, restitutive, sanative, sanatory, solving, soothing, therapeutic, tonic, treating, vulnerary, wholesome |
| Notes: | remediable means capable of relieving pain, curing disease, or correcting a disorder; remedial means tending or intended to rectify or improve |
| Antonyms: | damaging, harmful, hurtful, injurious |
| Main Entry: | aseptic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sterile |
| Synonyms: | barren, clean, lifeless, purifying, restrained, shrinking |
| Main Entry: | cathartic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | purging |
| Synonyms: | cathartical, cleaning, cleansing, purgative, purifying |
| Main Entry: | refining |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cleansing |
| Synonyms: | civilizing, clarifying, cleaning, cultivating, distillation, elevating, focusing, honing, improving, perfecting, polishing, purifying, sharpening |
| Main Entry: | ventilation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of providing or changing the air |
| Synonyms: | airing, freshening, oxygenating, purifying |
| Main Entry: | expiatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | purgative |
| Synonyms: | atonable, atoneable, conciliative, conciliatory, expiable, expiative, lustral, lustrative, propitiative, propitiatory, purgatorial, purificatory, purifying |
| Main Entry: | lustration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purification |
| Synonyms: | ablution, absolution, atonement, baptism, bathing, catharsis, depuration, disinfection, distillation, expiation, expurgation, forgiveness, grace, lavation, laving, purgation, purge, purifying, rarefaction, rebirth, redemption, refinement, regeneration, salvation, sanctification, washing |
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