Definition of "purifying" [purifying]

• Present participle of purify. (verb)

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• "The soldiery seemed to him to spend their spare time in defacing the many churches of the city, chiefly in order to do what they called purifying them from all idols, in which term they included every sort of carving or picture, or even figures on monuments."
• "Bothe asked Fleischmann to switch projects and begin purifying isotopes."
• "This breath pattern is often called a purifying breath."