purge

Speech parts

1. purge - Noun

2. purge - Verb

Meaning

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

To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.

To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.

To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

To become pure, as by clarification.

To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

The act of purging.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flush purify chuck honk clear cast remove eliminate sick purification expel eradicate exterminate purging cleanse
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Antonyms

rehabilitate water keep maintain holding keeping
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Hypernyms

change clear pass removal treat eliminate

Hyponyms

purification catharsis spiritualize purgation katharsis spiritualise

Phrases with the word

Great Purge ethnic purge purge away

Derivatives

purged purging

Anagrams

Grupe repug

Examples

After drinking too much, the students vomited Source: Internet

He purged continuously Source: Internet

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night Source: Internet

flush the wound with antibiotics Source: Internet

purge the old gas tank Source: Internet

he died in a purge by Stalin Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

purgatorie purgatoriid purgatory purge away purgeability purgeable