purge

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See also: purgé and пурге

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

purge (plural purges)

  1. An act of purging.
  2. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
  3. A cleansing of pipes.
  4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
    Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
  5. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)

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Translations

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
  2. (transitive, religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
  3. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
    • Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
      Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
    • Addison
      We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
  5. (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with 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, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
  7. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
  8. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
  9. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
  10. (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.

Translations

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Anagrams

French

Verb

purge

  1. first-person singular present indicative of purger
  2. third-person singular present indicative of purger
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of purger
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of purger
  5. second-person singular imperative of purger

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

purge f (plural purges)

  1. (Jersey) purgative
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