purging
Speech parts
1. purging - Noun
2. purging - Adjective
3. purging - Verb
Meaning
of Purge
That purges; cleansing.
The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.
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It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden.
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.
He didn't look all right to me. "Has anyone gone for the doctor?” "Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.”.
Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.