Purge

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.

Compare purge with other words:

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content vs. purge

comfort vs. purge

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impose vs. purge

exonerate vs. purge

emancipate vs. purge

extract vs. purge

deport vs. purge

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empty vs. purge

purgatively vs. purge

expurge vs. purge

depurgatory vs. purge

purge vs. remove

purge vs. vomit

purge vs. stipulate

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physic vs. purge

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laxative vs. purge

catharsis vs. purge

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expurgate vs. purge

leach vs. purge

purge vs. suspicion

imputation vs. purge

charge vs. purge

clear vs. purge

bowel vs. purge

misdeed vs. purge

purge vs. responsibility

burden vs. purge

guilt vs. purge

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free vs. purge

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cleanse vs. purge

purge vs. thorough

purgatory vs. purge

clean vs. purge

purge vs. purging

purge vs. splurge