>>   natural depuration.

>Interesting word. How does that differ from degradation?

Depurate means to "make pure". The problem is that while "de" normally means
to *un-do* something, like deconstruct, dethrone, etc. -- it has this
*other* meaning, which is *to do thoroughly* as in delimit, delineate, etc.

Degrade, of course, uses the first "de" as in: undoing quality. Depurate
uses the second, in which something is made thoroughly pure; quite the
opposite of degradation!

pb

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