Definitions for purge

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Spelling: [purj]

IPA: /pɜrdʒ/

Purge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in purge (egpru).

Definitions for purge

noun

1. the act or process of purging.
2. the removal or elimination of members of a political organization, government, nation, etc., who are considered disloyal or otherwise undesirable.
3. something that purges, as a purgative medicine or dose.

verb (used with object)

1. to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
2. to rid, clear, or free (usually followed by of or from):
3. to clear of imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness.
4. to clear away or wipe out legally (an offense, accusation, etc.) by atonement or other suitable action.
5. to remove by cleansing or purifying (often followed by away, off, or out).
6. to clear or empty (the bowels) by causing evacuation.
7. to cause evacuation of the bowels of (a person).
8. to put to death or otherwise eliminate (undesirable or unwanted members) from a political organization, government, nation, etc.
9. Metallurgy. to drive off (undesirable gases) from a furnace or stove. to free (a furnace or stove) of undesirable gases.

verb (used without object)

1. to become cleansed or purified.
2. to undergo or cause purging of the bowels.

Origin of purge

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English purgen Old French purg(i)er Latin pūrgāre to cleanse; (noun) Middle English Old French, derivative of the v.

Examples for purge

In true ultra-nationalist form, the party hopes to one day purge the country of all people that are not Greek, as they define it.

“I thought my reward would be that I could purge my relationship with people in the religious community,” she says.

Third, the current purge is leaving North Korea even more isolated.

He had been a month in Nantes, sent thither to purge the body politic.

I dyd it but onely to subdue my flesshe, and to purge my reynes.

After the initial, gag-inducing swallows, I waited for the purge.

He did his part to purge the veins of men of the subtle poisons which dwarf them.

To purge away the crime appears to him in the light of a duty, whoever may be the criminal.

He simply happened to be in one of those sections of Red Army intelligence which in some purge or other ceased to exist.

Why, my Masters, it can not as much as purge its own channels.