What does «depurar» mean in Spanish?
- To cleanse, to remove impurities, the foreign, the useless, to leave it pure; to purify.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la diálisis permite depurar la sangre".
"el agua se depura gracias a estos filtros".
- To rehabilitate or refine someone's conduct, thought or feeling, to take away what is considered bad, wrong or immoral; to refine, acrisolate.
Examples of use in Spanish: "los conquistadores cristianos, apenas llegados a América, intentaron depurar las prácticas culturales y religiosas propias de los nativos".
- To remove, after investigation, those members of an organization who do not meet or have gone against the political, ideological, etc., standards of the organization; to purge, set aside, expel.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el presidente intentará depurar su gabinete como efecto de la crisis política que envuelve al país".
"los miembros menos radicales han sido depurados del gobierno dictatorial".
- Reinstate those who had been removed or suspended from their posts for political reasons.
- Improve language or style.
Examples of use in Spanish: "tomé un curso de lengua y literatura para depurar mis vicios en el idioma".
- In physiology, to promote the elimination of waste products from the body.
Examples of use in Spanish: "estos licuados de vegetales permiten depurar el cuerpo".
- Correct errors in a programming code.