English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “purify”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for purify is pu-ri-fy, with 2 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
pu-ri-fy
3 segments2 break points
British English pattern result puri-fy The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordpurify
Hyphenationpu-ri-fy
Break points2
Part of speechtransitive verb
Pronunciation/ˈpjʊrəˌfaɪ/
Meaning & usage

What does “purify” mean?

purify: Remove contaminants from.

Headwordpurify
Part of speechtransitive verb
Pronunciation/ˈpjʊrəˌfaɪ/
1
transitive verb

Remove contaminants from.

Example: “the filtration plant is able to purify 70 tons of water a day”

Synonyms:
Word breaks

How “purify” is split

pu·ri·fy

For US English, the hyphenation result is pu-ri-fy. This gives 2 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns puri-fy.

Quick answers

Questions about “purify”

How do you hyphenate “purify”?

In the US-English result used here, purify is hyphenated as pu-ri-fy.

Where can “purify” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 2 possible break points.

What does “purify” mean?

Remove contaminants from.

Can you use “purify” in a sentence?

“the filtration plant is able to purify 70 tons of water a day”

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