purge

purge is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
2. transitive verb. To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
3. transitive verb. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
4. transitive verb. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
5. transitive verb. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
6. transitive verb. To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
7. transitive verb. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
8. intransitive verb. To become pure, as by clarification.
9. intransitive verb. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
10. transitive verb. The act of purging.
11. transitive verb. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
12. noun. an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place

    "he died in a purge by Stalin"

13. noun. an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

    Synonyms: purging

14. noun. the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

    Synonyms: purgation, purging

15. verb. excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)

    "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

16. verb. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

    "After drinking too much, the students vomited"

    "He purged continuously"

    Synonyms: barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew

17. verb. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

    "flush the wound with antibiotics"

    "purge the old gas tank"

    Synonyms: flush, scour

18. verb. rid of impurities

    "purge the water"

    "purge your mind"

19. verb. make pure or free from sin or guilt

    "he left the monastery purified"

    Synonyms: purify, sanctify

20. verb. clear of a charge
21. verb. oust politically

    "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

Synonyms

purging, purgation, barf, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, upchuck, vomit, flush, scour, purify, sanctify

Common word forms

purged, purger, purges, purging, purgeable

Words from these letters

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