Usually means: Systematic removal of undesired individuals.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. purges: Merriam-Webster
  2. purges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Purges, purges: Wordnik
  5. purges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purges: Wiktionary
  7. purges: Dictionary.com
  8. purges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Purges: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. purges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purges: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purges: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purges: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. purges: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purges: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purge)

verb:  (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
verb:  (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
verb:  (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
verb:  (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
verb:  (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
verb:  (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
verb:  (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
verb:  (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
verb:  (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
verb:  (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
verb:  (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
noun:  An act or instance of purging.
noun:  (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
noun:  Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
noun:  A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
noun:  An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
noun:  A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
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