English Dictionary

purge

/pɝdʒ/

verb

(transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. / (transitive, religion) To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.

I need to purge my closet and get rid of all the clothes I don't wear anymore.

意味（1）

(transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.

意味（2）

(transitive, religion) To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.

意味（3）

(transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

Purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

意味（4）

(transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.

意味（5）

(transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.

"What did they die of?” I asked.

"Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."

"He bled and purged babies?"

What did they die of?” I asked. Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died. He bled and purged babies? They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they … they died anyway."

意味（6）

(transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.

Deng Xiaoping was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution, but managed to return to power after Mao's death.

意味（7）

(transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.

Cromwell had Colonel Pride purge Parliament of royalists who opposed Charles I's execution.

意味（8）

(transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.

意味（9）

(transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).

意味（10）

(intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.

意味（11）

(intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

意味（12）

(transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.