PURGE
\pˈɜːd͡ʒ], \pˈɜːdʒ], \p_ˈɜː_dʒ]\
Definitions of PURGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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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"
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the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
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excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
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rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
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clear of a charge
By Princeton University
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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"
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the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
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excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
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rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
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clear of a charge
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
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To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
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To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
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To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
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To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
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To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
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To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
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To become pure, as by clarification.
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To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
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The act of purging.
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That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
By Oddity Software
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To free from impurities; to clear of guilt; remove or wash away; as, to purge one's sins; to cleanse by the action of a cathartic medicine.
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To become pure or clean.
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Purger.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make pure: to carry off whatever is impure or superfluous: to clear from guilt: to evacuate, as the bowels: to clarify, as liquors.
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To become pure by clarifying: to have frequent evacuations.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To cleanse; purify; clear; clear.
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To cleanse the bowels by medicinal action.
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A medicine that purges.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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