Lexic.us

Definition of Purge

1. Verb. Oust politically. "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

2. Noun. The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge.

3. Verb. Clear of a charge.

4. Noun. An act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements.

5. Verb. Make pure or free from sin or guilt. "He left the monastery purified"

6. Noun. An abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place. "He died in a purge by Stalin"

7. Verb. Rid of impurities. "Purge your mind"

8. Verb. Rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid. "Purge the old gas tank"

9. Verb. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth. "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

10. Verb. Excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body). "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

Definition of Purge

1. v. t. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

2. v. i. To become pure, as by clarification.

3. n. The act of purging.

Definition of Purge

1. Noun. An act of purging ¹

2. Noun. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. ¹

3. Noun. A cleansing of pipes. ¹

4. Noun. A forcible removal of people from political activity. ¹

5. Noun. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities ¹

7. Verb. (transitive religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds ¹

8. Verb. (transitive medicine) to void the bowels; to vomit. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purge

1. to purify [v PURGED, PURGING, PURGES] - See also: purify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purge

purfly purga purgament purgaments purgation purgations purgative purgatively purgatives purgatorial

purgatorian purgatorians purgatoric purgatories purgatory purge (current term) purgeable purged purger purgeries

purgers purgery purges purging purgings puri purification purifications purificative

Literary usage of Purge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"roughly purge his flour, and gather his wheat into his garner, and burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.' So Christ is the purger of the heart, mind, ..."

2. Annual Report by Rockefeller Foundation (1921)
"The drug is given in two equal portions, one at 6 am and one at 8 am The last capsule is followed in two hours by a saline purge. No preliminary purge is ..."

3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... use indirect and unworthy arts that they '"' ' " first, that the king of Spain gave a commission to the inquisitors to purge all catholic authors, ..."

4. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1916)
"He brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit. ..."

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