verb
- to purify or cleanse, especially by removing impurities
Usage: formal; technical
Examples
- The water treatment plant works to depurate the municipal water supply.
- Scientists developed a new method to depurate contaminated soil.
- The filtration system helps depurate the air in the laboratory.
- Industrial processes must depurate wastewater before discharge.
- The liver functions to depurate toxins from the bloodstream.
- Chemical treatments can depurate metals of their impurities.