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

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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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Adjective

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 This was a mouse study using a purified research-grade form of phytic acid, not the kind on your dinner plate. — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026 The work was done in mice using a purified form of phytic acid. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026 Cetaphil’s face serum uses purified peptides to improve your skin’s elasticity and reduce the appearance of lines. — Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 22 June 2026 The report finds that purified terephthalic acid production and monoethylene glycol, used to polymerize polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, are the biggest contributors across nearly all environmental impact categories. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 June 2026 The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 The Metropolitan Water District already is planning a large new facility in Carson to transform wastewater into purified drinking water. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026

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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 This is a far more advanced and valuable product that requires graphite to be purified, shaped, coated, and graphitized before it can be used inside batteries. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 May 2026 Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026 When the characters played by Carey Mulligan and Kaden Leos begin to tiptoe into that void, Gosling sells the Driver’s transition into a man finally come alive, revitalized by love and purified by violence. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for purified

Adjective

This butternut squash pasta is pure comfort, with roasted squash, garlic, and shallots blended into a creamy, smooth sauce.

— Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 8 July 2026
Minions & Monsters kept its familiar chaos intact, but its turn toward sentiment may have left behind some of the pure silliness that built its core audience at home.

— David Deal, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of pure

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Doctors, following accepted practice, would likely have bled or purged an ill person for humoral balance.

— Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Among those purged or forced to retire have been a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations and the head of the Defense Health Agency.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026

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First came establishing the Luke Bell Memorial Affordable Counseling Program, where royalties from his works are filtered to make mental health treatments more readily accessible in his home state of Wyoming.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026
Fresh marigold leaves were rinsed, chopped, crushed, centrifuged, filtered, and evaporated.

— Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 6 July 2026

Definition of filtered

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Keren’s approach—refined through dozens of iterations, tested on skin, and developed with global precision via perfumer networks—is deeply personal and culturally attuned.

— Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Every season of Industry has refined the series, asked more of its stars, and accurately spit at some of our culture’s biggest pain points.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2026

Definition of refined

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When asked how that policy would be affected by the new budget language, Pojmann clarified that her comments referred to the department’s practice before the law took effect.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Known for his deep technical knowledge and signature milk punches, Gibson has brought that ingenuity to Lucky Star through his reserved cocktails, such as the cookies and cream made with rum, clarified milk tea and creme de cacao.

— Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026

Definition of clarified

Verb

Forty years of decisions, regulatory adaptations and market responses have never been extracted.

— Nitin Rakesh, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Instead, the metadata from that audio and images would be extracted and uploaded to the server for Meta’s AI to query, which proponents argue would have fewer privacy implications.

— Jay Peters, The Verge, 8 July 2026

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