Definitions of PURGE [ɜrdʒ]

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Definition of 'PURGE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) purge
to rid of impurities; cleanse; purify.

2.  purge
to rid, clear, or free:
to purge a political party of disloyal members.

3.  purge
to clear of imputed guilt.

4.  purge
to remove by cleansing or purifying.

5.  purge
to clear or empty (the stomach or intestines) by inducing vomiting or evacuation.

6.  purge
to eliminate (undesirable members) from a government, political organization, etc.

7. (v.i.) purge
to become cleansed or purified.

8.  purge
to undergo or cause emptying of the stomach or intestines.

9. (n.) purge
the act or process of purging.

10.  purge
the removal or elimination of members of a political organization, government, etc., considered disloyal or otherwise undesirable, often in a summary or violent manner.

11.  purge
something that purges, as a purgative medicine.

Etymology: (1250–1300; (v.) ME < OF purg(i)er < L pūrgāre to refine, clean, purge)

Definition of 'PURGE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) purge, purging, purgation
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

2. (noun) purge, purging
an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

3. (verb) purge
an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
"he died in a purge by Stalin"

4. (verb) purge
oust politically
"Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

5. (verb) purge
clear of a charge

6. (verb) purify, purge, sanctify
make pure or free from sin or guilt
"he left the monastery purified"

7. (verb) purge
rid of impurities
"purge the water"; "purge your mind"

8. (verb) flush, scour, purge
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

9. (verb) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up
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"

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

Definition of 'PURGE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) PURGE
to cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous

2. (verb) PURGE
to operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner

3. (verb) PURGE
to clarify; to defecate, as liquors

4. (verb) PURGE
to clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape

5. (verb) PURGE
to clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime

6. (verb) PURGE
to clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal

7. (verb) PURGE
to remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away

8. (verb) PURGE
to become pure, as by clarification

9. (verb) PURGE
to have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic

10. (verb) PURGE
the act of purging

11. (verb) PURGE
that which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic

Translation of 'PURGE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (something) clean by clearing it of everything that is bad, not wanted etc.
Afrikaans: wegruim, opruim	Arabic: يُنَظِّف، يُطَهِّر	Bulgarian: прочиствам
Brazilian: purificar	Czech: očistit	German: reinigen
Danish: rense for	Greek: εξαγνίζω	Spanish: purgar
Estonian: puhastama	Farsi: زدودن؛ تصفیه کردن	Finnish: puhdistaa
French: purger	Hebrew: לְטָהֵר	Hindi: शुद्ध करना
Hungarian: kitisztít	Indonesian: membersihkan	Icelandic: hreinsa, hvítþvo
Italian: purificare	Japanese: 一掃する	Korean: 정화하다
Lithuanian: (iš)valyti	Latvian: attīrīt; iztīrīt	Malay: menyingkirkan
Dutch: zuiveren	Norwegian: rense	Polish: oczyścić
Persian: زدودن؛ تصفیه کردن	Pashto: پاكول، صافول	Portuguese: purificar
Romanian: a curăţa (de)	Russian: очищать	Slovak: očistiť
Slovenian: očistiti (česa)	Serbian: pročistiti	Swedish: rena
Thai: ล้างมลทิน	Turkish: temizleyip arındırmak	Taiwanese: 清洗，淨化
Ukrainian: очищати	Urdu: پاک صاف کرنا	Vietnamese: làm sạch
Chinese: 清洗，净化
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