[
UK
/pˈɜːdʒ/
]
[ US /ˈpɝdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝdʒ/ ]
VERB
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excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
The doctor decided that the patient must be purged -
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night
After drinking too much, the students vomited
He purged continuously -
rid of impurities
purge your mind
purge the water -
oust politically
Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime -
make pure or free from sin or guilt
he left the monastery purified - clear of a charge
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rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
flush the wound with antibiotics
purge the old gas tank
NOUN
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
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an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
he died in a purge by Stalin - the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
How To Use purge In A Sentence
- `I told him a hundred times he should purge himself of the jook. THE BROKEN GOD
- He prefers to purge children of demons by making them take laxatives and emetics.
- She proves this to herself with a huge binge, a purge, or more starving. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
- In 1949, there was a mass purge of Communists, using regulations originally designed for ultra - right militarists.
- When she wasn't humming she spoke in "theatrical tongue" using many made-up words as we laughed and we purged. La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
- La justice italienne a à son tour passé l'éponge après avoir maintenu l'ancien militant ultra-nationaliste en prison pendant 19 ans, mais l'a remis en 2000 aux autorités turques qui le réclamaient pour purger deux peines auxquelles il avait été condamné en Turquie, l'une pour une attaque de banque commise dans les années 1970 et l'autre pour le meurtre d'un journaliste turc en 1979. belga/th Mehmet Ali Agca,Pope John Paul II's Would-Be Assassin, embraces the Catholic Faith! IMPORTANT INFO ADDED
- Sanctification, so far as it relates to the removal of spiritual defilement, is illustrated; and that man cannot purge himself from his natural pravity is proved, iv. Pneumatologia
- And, as soon as we know the facts, we can stop all the conclusionary statements, that it's a big mess, that it's a purge, without really knowing exactly what happened. CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2007
- Purge the brain of factoids and start real life again, get with some real writing, read a real book.
- It might appear from the above that postures, breathing techniques and sensory control automatically purge the mind of distractions and bring about equilibrium and calm.
