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Spanish
Etymology
From depurar + -ción.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /depuɾaˈθjon/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /depuɾaˈsjon/
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: de‧pu‧ra‧ción
Noun
depuración f (plural depuraciones)
- purification, depuration, treatment
2015 July 20, “El sueño de la utopía produce monstruos”, in El País:La idea de depuración, de limpieza interna, alimentó la paranoia de un líder obsesivo que veía traidores por todas partes y que orquestó algunos de los juicios ejemplares más delirantes, en los que nunca existió la menor de las garantías jurídicas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- cleansing
- una depuración étnica ― an ethnic cleansing
- (politics) purge
- (computing) debugging
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