Purge word meaning and definition

[noun] an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
[noun] the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
[verb] excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
[verb] 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"
[verb] rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
[verb] rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
[verb] make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
[verb] clear of a charge
[verb] oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

\Purge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Purging}.] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See {Pure}, and {Agent}.] 1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. ``Till fire purge all things new.'' --Milton. 2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime. When that he hath purged you from sin. --Chaucer. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. --Ps. li. 7. 6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. 7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away. Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. --Ps. lxxix. 9. We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes. --Addison.
\Purge\, v. i. 1. To become pure, as by clarification. 2. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
\Purge\, n. [Cf. F. purge. See {Purge}, v. t.] 1. The act of purging. The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland. --Fuller. 2. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. --Arbuthnot.

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