pure

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Adjective

1. Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
2. Free of foreign material or pollutants.
3. Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
4. Mere; that and that only.
   • That idea is pure madness!
5. Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
6. Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
7. Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
8. Having no side effects.
   • a pure method
9. A lot of.

Adverb

1. to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
   • You’re pure busy.

Verb

1. To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
   • Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
2. To cleanse; to refine.

Noun

1. One who, or that which, is pure.

Noun

1. Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).

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