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▸ 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".
Similar:
purgation,
clear-out,
expunction,
expunging,
eradication,
vacuation,
depletion,
binge-purge,
expunctuation,
emptying,
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