depure

See also: dépuré, dépure, and depuré

English

Etymology

From French dépurer. See depurate.

Verb

depure (third-person singular simple present depures, present participle depuring, simple past and past participle depured)

1. (obsolete) to depurate; to purify
   • 1532-1533, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer

     be depured and clensed byfore that he shall be layed vppe for pure golde in the treasours of god

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “depure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Dupree, Perdue, perdue, pureed, puréed

Portuguese

Verb

depure

1. inflection of depurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈpuɾe/ [d̪eˈpu.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -uɾe
• Syllabification: de‧pu‧re

Verb

depure

1. inflection of depurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative