purge

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See also: purgé, and пурге

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Etymology

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From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“I make, I do”).

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purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)

  1. (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to rid of impurities; to cleanse.
  2. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
  3. (transitive) To free from sin, guilt, or burden.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
  5. (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge; to operate (on somebody) using a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
    • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
      "What did they die of?” I asked. / "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died." / "He bled and purged babies?" / "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they … they died anyway."
  6. (transitive) To forcibly remove, for example, from political activity.
    Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death.
  7. (transitive) To forcibly remove people by an organization.
    Cromwell had Colonel Pride purge Parliament of royalists who opposed Charles I's execution.
  8. (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
  9. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
  10. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
  11. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
  12. (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pewH- (0 c, 37 e)

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Noun

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purge (plural purges)

  1. An act or instance of purging.
  2. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
  3. Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
    • 1722, John Arbuthnot, Mr. Maitland’s account of inoculating the small-pox:
      he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit
  4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
    Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
  5. An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
  6. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
    Synonym: weep

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Noun

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purge f (plural purges)

  1. purge

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purge

  1. inflection of purger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Middle English

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purge

  1. Alternative form of purgen

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Noun

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purge f (plural purges)

  1. (Jersey) purgative
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