lustrate

verb

Definition of lustratenext
as in to purify

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  1. purify
  2. cleanse
  3. chasten
  4. spiritualize
  5. exorcise
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  • Dalhousie University View 1 Images Scientists in Canada have demonstrated a promising new device that can purify a gallon of water a day, for just a few cents per gallon.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The humidity is condensed out of the air and turned into water, which is then purified.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of purify
Verb
  • The nation’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Blinken that Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestinians from Gaza.
    Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Nighttime routines used to consist of cleansing your face, putting on a basic retinol, and finishing with a generous slathering of Pond's Cream.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of cleanse
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  • Los Blancos could have undone some of the damage done by a 0-4 chastening at the hands of bitter rival FC Barcelona with a statement win over Ancelotti's former employers AC Milan in the Champions League.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The 29-year-old can occasionally frustrate with his histrionics and cavalier playing style, but last season’s 4-0 defeat away at Crystal Palace was a chastening reminder of what the team can look like without him.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
Definition of chasten
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  • None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.
    Benjamin Kirby, Quartz Africa, 1 May 2020
  • Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2019
Definition of spiritualize
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  • But if Martin’s memoir, Born Standing Up, is to be believed, he’s exorcised most of those demons.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Both teams can exorcise the 2017 demons, then give us the series we were deprived of in 2017.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of exorcise
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Thesaurus Entries Near lustrate

lusting (for or after)

lustrate

lustrated

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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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