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purge
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Definitions ofpurge
1noun
- An act of purging.
- An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
- A cleansing of pipes.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
Example: "Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible."
- That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
1verb
- To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
- To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
- To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
- To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
- To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
- To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
- To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
- To become pure, as by clarification.
- To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- To trim, dress or prune.
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