Definition of Purge

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Definition of Purge

Purge

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

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

To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

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

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

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

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

To become pure, as by clarification.

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

The act of purging.

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

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Purge Quotations

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
Don Van Vliet

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
Tracey Gold

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
David Horowitz

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
Kate Millett

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.
Judith Light

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers.
John Lawson

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
Kathryn Bigelow

Purge Translations

purge in Afrikaans is skoonmaak
purge in Dutch is reinigen, schoonmaken, louteren
purge in Italian is epurazione
purge in Latin is defaeco
purge in Swedish is utrensning, rensa, rena

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