Purge
[pɜːdʒ] or [pɝdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; 'he died in a purge by Stalin'.
(noun.) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements.
(noun.) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge.
(verb.) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); 'The doctor decided that the patient must be purged'.
(verb.) rid of impurities; 'purge the water'; 'purge your mind'.
(verb.) clear of a charge.
(verb.) oust politically; 'Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime'.
Checker: Yale--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
(v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
(v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
(v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
(v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
(v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
(v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
(v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification.
(v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
(v. t.) The act of purging.
(v. t.) That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Cleanse, clear, purify, clarify, free from impurity.
n. Purgative.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cleanse, clear, clarify, purify,[See CLEAR]
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Definition
v.t. to make pure: to carry off whatever is impure or superfluous: to clear from guilt or from accusation: to evacuate as the bowels: to trim dress prune: to clarify as liquors.—v.i. to become pure by clarifying: to have frequent evacuations.—n. act of purging: a medicine that purges.—n. Purgā′tion a purging: a clearing away of impurities: (law) the act of clearing from suspicion or imputation of guilt a cleansing.—adj. Pur′gative cleansing: having the power of evacuating the intestines.—n. a medicine that evacuates.—adv. Pur′gatively.—adjs. Purgatō′rial Purgatō′rian pertaining to purgatory; Pur′gatory purging or cleansing: expiatory.—n. (R.C.) a place or state in which souls are after death purified from venial sins: any kind or state of suffering for a time.—ns. Pur′ger a person or thing that purges; Pur′ging act of cleansing or clearing.
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Examples
- Purge' is the word you want, the officer said, still not looking up. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take early in the morning four hours after a purge. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- H is a purge or overflow pipe, K a sight hole which permits the operation of the apparatus to be watched, the stream of water being distinctly seen in the free interval. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When, said he solemnly, and looking upward, wilt thou come with thy fanners to purge the thrashing-floor? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- O, for some medicinal vial to purge unwholesome nature, and bring back the earth to its accustomed health! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. van der Luyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vulgar passions. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They are purging more than the epsom salts in this epoch. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And so, by the dog of Egypt, we have been unconsciously purging the State, which not long ago we termed luxurious. Plato. The Republic.
- Here it reports the purging of more of thy famous Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You read glowing articles in magazines about preachers who devote their time to housing reforms, milk supplies, the purging of the civil service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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