purge

Meaning

Noun

1. An act of purging.
2. An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
3. A cleansing of pipes.
4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
5. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

Verb

1. To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
2. To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
3. To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
4. To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
5. To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
6. To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
7. To forcibly remove people from.
8. To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
9. To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
10. To become pure, as by clarification.
11. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
12. To trim, dress, or prune.

Synonyms

cleanse

clean

purify

purgative

laxative

make clean

eliminate

clear

purification

purgation

cleaning

scavenge

scour

purging

sanctify

wipe out

cleansing

absterge

lustrate

refine

cast

regorge

make pure

spue

vomit up

regurgitate

deterge

remove

cat

😺

retch

rid of

disgorge

honk

be puristic

sick

🤢

spew

cathartic

barf

chuck

be sick

cleaning up

throw up

elimination

physic

cleanup

upchuck

vomit

puke

flush

defecate

combing-out

rectify

exterminate

extinguish

extirpate

extraction

fettle

finish up

flux

free

🆓

get rid of

groom

harvest

hollow out

kill

🔪🩸👤

launder

lift

liquidate

lop

mark

melting away

net

obliterate

obviate

omission

preclude

pull

purifying

rarefy

refinement

removal

reset

sanitize

scratch out

stamp out

stem

stool

strike

strike off

strike out

strip

sublimate

take

take away

take out

throw off

tidying up

unblock

undeceive

unload

wash

🧽

wash away

washing

wipe away

wipe off

wiping out

write off

delete

blank out

depreciation charge

depuration

doctor’s stuff

dress out

cause to walk up and down aimlessly

epuration

sanitization

waste

evacuate bowels

relive constipation

take a laxative

undelude

removel

give diarrhoea to

write-off

ablate

abolish

abrogate

absolve

annihilate

aperient

bowdlerize

breathe

brush down

call in

chasten

clarify

clean up

clean-up

clearing

clear off

clear out

close out

cross off

cross out

crush

cull

cut out

deactivation

decontamination

deletion

depurate

destroy

disabuse

dismissal

distill

draw away

drive out

dying out

edit

eject

ejection

elision

empty

eradicate

erasure

evacuate

evisceration

excise

excrete

exorcise

exorcize

expulsion

expunge

expurgate

expurgation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɝd͡ʒ/

Etymology

From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“I make, I do”).