PURIFIED Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

purified 1 of 2

adjective

as in pure

free from added matter purified water that was now safe to drink

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purified

2 of 2

verb

past tense of purify

as in purged

to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially Catholics go to confession to be purified

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as in filtered

to remove usually visible impurities from purify the water by distillation

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Once ramped up, Circ expects the facility to process 70,000 metric tons of polycotton textile waste annually and produce cellulose pulp, purified terephthalic acid and monoethylene glycol. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026 The product also contains benzalkonium chloride, boric acid, edetate disodium, purified water, sodium chloride and sodium citrate as inactive ingredients. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 Omnivores should punch up the platter with the special beef kitfo, raw steak that drips with herbed, purified butter and gets its fiery kick from mitmita, a spice blend with chile peppers. — Warren Rojas, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2026 Rather than requiring highly purified feedstock to make a specialized semiconductor material, manufacturers could potentially start with more abundant and less refined iron ore. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 It is derived from purified DNA fragments extracted most commonly from salmon, and sometimes from certain trout. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026 Maher helped create the opinionated political host, but by now has lived long enough to resent the purified partisan marketplace that followed. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026 Similarly, SpudCell was assembled from the bottom up with purified, nonliving parts. — Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026 Workers feed iron ore, coal and limestone into the furnaces’ top and use long sticks to punch open holes for purified molten iron to flow out from the bottom. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026

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But what if the water and nutrients could be purified from whey permeate and used for other purposes? — Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2026 Once hydrogen is flowing from the ground, how will the gas be purified? — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Aug. 2026 This gas will then be purified and concentrated, ready for export to local gas networks as what is termed renewable natural gas (RNG). — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026 And here, the researchers simply purified the translation machinery and supplied it to the SpudCells. — ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026 The amount may be infinitesimal—white sugar and bottled water are sometimes purified with charred animal bones, for instance—but some hypersensitive alpha-gal patients avoid the risk anyway. — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 But that doesn’t matter because that’s been purified. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 June 2026 She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed. — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026 There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool. — New York Times, 31 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for purified

Adjective

Sanft argued his client’s account was pure fiction, and that investigators failed to quickly and vigorously corroborate it for a reason.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
These sneakers also come in a wide variety of colors and trims if pure white isn’t your thing.

— Rebecca Shinners, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of pure

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Under tolling agreements, third parties deliver raw black mass to the site to be refined for a processing fee.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026
Reviewers agree that the design looks refined, with leather that feels more expensive than its approachable price point suggests.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of refined

Verb

Its relatively narrow focus on the first postcolonial decades might have dramatized the period’s ideological debates or at least clarified the stakes.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026
In a statement, an Axel Springer spokesperson clarified that The Circuit was technically incorporated in the US, with staff located around the world.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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