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purge in WordNet English dictionary
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"
vomit vomit up purge cast sick cat be sick disgorge regorge retch puke barf spew spue chuck upchuck honk regurgitate throw up
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
"flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
flush scour purge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
"The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
purge
- rid of impurities
"purge the water"; "purge your mind"
purge
- make pure or free from sin or guilt
"he left the monastery purified"
purify purge sanctify
- clear of a charge
purge
- oust politically
"Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
purge
noun- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
purge purging purgation
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
purge purging
- an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
"he died in a purge by Stalin"
purge
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University