purge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dermatology
law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“to make pure, to cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make, to do”).
Inflected forms:
form: purges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: purging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: purged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: purged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: purges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of (something unwanted).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After the process, the machine purges the chamber before venting it to remove toxic gases.
gloss: To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country’s crimes.
gloss: To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "What did they die of?” I asked. / "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died." / "He bled and purged babies?" / "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they … they died anyway."
gloss: To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death.
gloss: To forcibly remove people by an organization.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cromwell had Colonel Pride purge Parliament of royalists who opposed Charles I's execution.
Late triumphs of Russian science are scaring the very dogwater out of large elements in our society, and we both fear more "purging" instead of more effort at catching up.
gloss: To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become pure, as by clarification.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To trim, dress, or prune.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of topical skincare: to force underlying acne to rise to the surface in response to ingredients that increase cell turnover, causing a temporary increase in blemishes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Differin is purging my skin.
gloss: Of skin: to undergo the process of purging.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My skin is purging.
gloss: An act or instance of purging.
pos: noun
gloss: An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
pos: noun
examples: he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit
gloss: A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
pos: noun
examples: Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were irreversible.
One of the few surviving Bolsheviks with real power, Mikoyan had been brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1926, had escaped innumerable purges, and had demonstrated an uncanny ability to survive and to associate himself with the right faction at the right time.
gloss: An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
pos: noun
gloss: A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
pos: noun
gloss: The temporarily worsening of acne due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying blemishes to the surface more quickly.
pos: noun
Derived words: binge-and-purge
binge-purge
ethnic purge
merge-purge
purgation
purgeability
purgeable
purgee
purgery
purgingly
repurge
unpurged
Great Purge
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