as in to purify
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lustrate
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Similar in neo-Gothic style, but purified in form and detail.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025 -
Defenseless Christians in Nigeria and Syria have recently been attacked by extremists intent on purifying those lands for Islam.—
Nina Shea,
National Review,
30 June 2025
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The safer, cleaner version of burning actual sage in your home, this Malin + Goetz sage home spray is a perfect pick to help cleanse a space and bring freshness and life to any room.—
Daley Quinn,
Glamour,
3 July 2025
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This includes 28 nail strips in various sizes, as well as a prep pad to cleanse your nails before application, a small nail file, and a wooden stick.—
Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
30 June 2025
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Liverpool offered their under-23 pitch, with Leverkusen’s players taking part in a light training session and debrief of the previous evening’s chastening loss.—
Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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But Lippmann’s studies of psychology had chastened him.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
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None of this is intended to take away from the ambivalent and sometimes plainly harmful effects of attempts to spiritualize the pandemic.—
Benjamin Kirby,
Quartz Africa,
1 May 2020
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Thought and speech — thought’s public projection — are both combined and spiritualized.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
22 June 2019
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Months before, Stevens feared President Johnson was pursuing a Reconstruction program that would readmit Confederate states to the Union without them exorcising the demon that animated secession.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Birbiglia wrote and directed and says that process exorcised most of those feelings for him.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
23 May 2025
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“Lustrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustrate. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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