Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
- 2transitive verb
To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
- 3transitive verb
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
- 4transitive verb
To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
- 5transitive verb
To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
- 6transitive verb
To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
- 7transitive verb
To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
- 8intransitive verb
To become pure, as by clarification.
- 9intransitive verb
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- 10transitive verb
The act of purging.
- 11transitive verb
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
- 12noun
an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
"he died in a purge by Stalin"
- 13noun
an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
Synonyms
- 14noun
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- 15verb
excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
"The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
- 16verb
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students vomited"
"He purged continuously"
- 17verb
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"
"purge the old gas tank"
- 18verb
rid of impurities
"purge the water"
"purge your mind"
- 19verb
make pure or free from sin or guilt
"he left the monastery purified"
- 20verb
clear of a charge
- 21verb
oust politically
"Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
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