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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. purge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. purge: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. purge: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Purge: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. purge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. purge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. purge: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. purge: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. purge (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. purge: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. purge: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Purge (EP), Purge (album), Purge (comic), Purge (comics), Purge (communist), Purge (disambiguation), Purge (game), Purge (repression), Purge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Purge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. purge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. purge: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. purge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. purge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. purge: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. purge: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. purge: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. purge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. purge: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purge: Natural Magick [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purge: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. purge: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  3. Purge (repression), purge: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  4. PURGE: Death and Funeral Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: CCI Computer [home, info]
  2. Purge: I T Glossary [home, info]
  3. Purge (repression), purge: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. purge: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. Purge: Hepatitis C Information Central [home, info]
  4. Purge (repression), purge: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Political [home, info]
  2. PURGE: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purge: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purge: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. PURGE: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
  3. purge: Glossary of Water Resource Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (purge)

noun:  an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
noun:  the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
verb:  oust politically ("Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime")
verb:  rid of impurities ("Purge the water")
verb:  excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) ("The doctor decided that the patient must be purged")
verb:  clear of a charge
verb:  make pure or free from sin or guilt
verb:  rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid ("Purge the old gas tank")
verb:  eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth ("He purged continuously")

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