purgeverb/pɜːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse; to clear of (something unwanted).

  • After the process, the machine purges the chamber before venting it to remove toxic gases.
• 2

  To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

• 3

  To free from sin, guilt, or burden.

  • Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
  • We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country’s crimes.
• 4

  medicinesciencesTo evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.

• 5

  medicinesciencesTo cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.

  • "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."
• 6

  To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.

  • Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death.
• 7

  To forcibly remove people by an organization.

  • 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.
• 8

  lawTo clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.

purgenoun/pɜːd͡ʒ/

• 1

  An act or instance of purging.

• 2

  medicinesciencesAn evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.

• 3

  Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

  • he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit
• 4

  A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.

  • 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.
• 5

  An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.

• 6

  A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

• 7

  The temporarily worsening of acne due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying blemishes to the surface more quickly.