Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of purifying.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Purification.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun purification of a product (such as in the process of sugar extraction)
  • noun any type of political cleansing, such as ethnic cleansing

Etymologies

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From French épuration

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