Also means
purification
Usage Note
Depuración covers both a political purge (removing people from an organization) and a technical purification process (water treatment, depuración de aguas residuales). The context usually disambiguates: political headlines use depuración de cargos, while environmental engineering uses planta de depuración. The verb is depurar.
Examples
"La depuración de las listas fue inmediata."
Natural Translation
The purge of the lists was immediate.

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