means To puree something is to grind, blend, or press food into a smooth, thick, uniform pulp — or the resulting smooth mass itself.

from Straight from French purée, the past participle of the old verb purer, 'to purify or strain,' which traces back to Latin purare, 'to make pure,' from purus, 'clean, unmixed.' So the word carries a quiet irony: what we now achieve by violent blending was once imagined as a kind of cleansing — pressing food through a sieve until only the pure, smooth essence remained.