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
excrete or evacuate (someone''s bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

Verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

Verb
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

Verb
rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

Verb
make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"

Verb
clear of a charge

Verb
oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

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v. t.
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

v. t.
To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

v. t.
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

v. t.
To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.

v. t.
To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

v. t.
To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.

v. t.
To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

v. i.
To become pure, as by clarification.

v. i.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

v. t.
The act of purging.

v. t.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

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Purge

Purge , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Purging .] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See Pure, and Agent.] 1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton. 2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

When that he hath purged you from sin.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.

6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. 7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes.

Purge

Purge, v. i. 1. To become pure, as by clarification. 2. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

Purge

Purge, n. [Cf. F. purge. See Purge, v. t.] 1. The act of purging.

The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland.

2. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Arbuthnot.

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

To become pure, as by clarification.

The act of purging.