Purge

Definition: Purge

Purge

Noun

1. The act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge.

2. An act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other other undesired elements.

Verb

1. Oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime".

2. Clear of a charge.

3. Rid of impurities; "purge your mind".

4. Cause to excrete or evacuate, as of the bowels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "purge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Purge

Atonement

Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.

Cleanness

Wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain.

Ejection

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Crosswords: Purge

French (bleeding, draining, extinction, liquidation, purgation, purge).

God gave you grace to purge this place (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

On purge bébé (1961)

C'est papa qui prend la purge (1906)

On purge bébé (1996)

On purge bébé (1979)

Skhvatka v purge (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bulimia/Anorexia: The Binge Purge Cycle and Self-Starvation (reference)

• History and Silence: Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity (reference)

• Metallica Live: Binge & Purge Selections (reference)

• Stalin's Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series) (reference)

• The end of Sukarno: a coup that misfired: a purge that ran wild (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Purge (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Persons with bulimia nervosa, however, usually purge, fast, or do strenuous exercise after they binge eat. Purging means vomiting or using a lot of diuretics (water pills) or laxatives to keep from gaining weight. (references)

Economic History

Libya

The military, once Qadhafi's strongest supporters, became a potential threat in the 1990s. In 1993, following a failed coup attempt that implicated senior military officers, Qadhafi began to purge the military periodically, eliminating potential rivals and inserting his own loyal followers in their place. (references)

Ethiopia

From 1977 through early 1978 thousands of suspected enemies of the Derg were tortured and/or killed in a purge called the "red terror." Communism was officially adopted during the late 1970s and early 1980s with the promulgation of a Soviet-style constitution, Politburo, and the creation of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE). (references)

El Salvador

A purge of military officers accused of human rights abuses and corruption was completed in 1993 in compliance with the Ad Hoc Commission's recommendations. (references)

Human Rights

Mauritania

The Collective of Worker Victims of the 1989 Events seeks redress for government employees who lost their jobs in the events of 1989. The Committee of the Widows and the Collective of Survivors focus on the sufferings of the victims of the 1990-91 military purge and their families. (references)

Libya

As part of the campaign to implement the Purge Law, the wealth of the middle class and affluent has been targeted as well. (references)

Korea

The main targets of the purge were frequent travelers to China and persons addicted to opium. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "purge": purge-tasks.

Ending with "purge": binge-purge.

Containing "purge": binge-purge syndrome.

Afrikaans

skoonmaak (clean, cleanse, make, make clean). (various references)

Albanian

purgativ (aperient, cathartic, depletive, depletory, purgative, saline), pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear up, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try), pastrim (abrasion, abstersion, clarification, clean, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, defecation, depuration, lustration, mopping, purification, rectification, refinement, refining, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, sweep), zbraz (clear, clear out, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, shoot, tap, unload, unlock, void), spastroj (clean out, clear, clear away), spastrim (cleansing, clearance, clearing, combing, turn out), shlyej (clear, discharge, expiate, forgive, liquidate, make good, make up, redeem, satisfy, settle, Square, work off), shfajësoj (absolve, acquit, defend, exculpate, exonerate, justify, vindicate, whitewash). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كفر عن ذنوبه, ‏كفر عن (atone, expiate), ‏مسهل (aperient, laxative, purgative), ‏نظف (char, clean, clean out, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purify, rub, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab, wash out), ‏تسهيل المعدة, ‏تطهير (cleaning, cleansing, decontamination, purgation, purging, purification, sanitation, sterilization), ‏طهر (circumcise, decontaminate, depurate, disinfect, exorcise, exorcize, mop up, pureness, purify, rid, sanitize, scour, show, sterilize, sweeten), ‏المسهل دواء, ‏إسهال (dysentery), ‏إستطلق, ‏أبرئ شخصا ما, ‏دواء مسهل شربة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разслабвам, разслабително (aloes, aperitive), чистка (comb out), очистване (ablution, ablutions, abstersion, cleaning, cleansing, depuration, purging, purification, removal, trimming), очиствам се, очиствам (break, chastise, clean, cleanse, clear, depurate, deterge, do in, flick, polish off, pop off, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out, wipe out), очистение, оправдавам се (justify oneself, right), оправдавам (acquit, authorise, authorize, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, fulfill, justify, legitimate, sanctify, vindicate, warrant), прочистване (evacuation, flushing), прочиствам (evacuate, flush, open, scour, weed out), пречистване (filtering, filtration, purification, rectification, refinement, scavenging), правя чистка, изкупвам (atone, buy in, buy out, condone, expiate, make satisfaction for, ransom, redeem, righten). (various references)

Chinese 

肅清 , 清除 (Burring, Clearance, Cleared). (various references)

Czech

projímadlo (laxative), oèistit (cleanse, purify, whitewash, wipe, wipe away, wipe off). (various references)

Danish

rense (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Dutch

schoonmaken (clean, cleanse, make clean), reinigen (clean, cleanse, make clean), louteren (clean, cleanse, make clean, refine). (various references)

Esperanto

purigi (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Faeroese

reinsa (clean, cleanse, make clean, refine), gera reint (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Farsi 

پاک کردن (Absolve, Clean, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), پالایش , مسهل (Cathartic, Physic, Purgative), کارکن (Purgative, Workable), تهی کردن (Deplete, Evacuate, Exhaust, Strip, Vacate), تنقیه کردن , تطهیرکردن (Cleanse, Exorcise, Expurgate, Sancify, Scour), تطهیر (Catharsis), تصفیه حزب یادولت ازعناصرنادلخواه , تبرءه کردن (Acquit, Cleanse, Clear, Excuse, Exonerate), سرشاخه زنی (Recision), زدودن (Clean, Efface, Obliterate, Remove, Scour, Scrape, Shuck, Swab, Sweep, Wipe), خالی کردن (Aspirate, Deplete, Discharge, Disgorge, Empty, Evacuate, Hollow, Vacate, Vent). (various references)

Finnish

puhdistaa (clean, cleanse, clear, clear up, polish, purify, refine, tidy up). (various references)

French

purger. (various references)

Frisian

suverje (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

German

Säuberungsaktion (cleaning-up operation, cleanup), reinigen (bowdlerize, clarify, clean, cleaning, cleanse, clear, defecate, dry clean, expurgate, launder, purify, refine, shampoo, to clean, to cleanse, to defecate, to scavenge, to scour), Purgieren (evacuate the bowels). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, clear out, clear up, defecate, finish up, flux, furbish, net, peel, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, wash away). (various references)

Hebrew 

לט�"ר (cleanse, clear, exonerate, make clean, purify, rid), ט�"ור (absolute, abstersion, catharsis, cleaning up, cleansing, decontamination, pure, purgation, purification, sheer, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed), סם משלשל. (various references)

Hungarian

tisztítás (brushing, clarification, cleaning, defecation, elutriation, flush, purgation, purging, purification, purifying, refinement, scaling, scour, scrubbing, settling), hashajtó (aloes, aperient, aperitif, black draught, cathartic, laxative, physic, purgative, purgative medicine), hashajtás (purgation). (various references)

Icelandic

hreinsa (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Indonesian

penyingkiran (elimination, evacuation, exclusion), pembersihan (cleaning, cleansing, cleanup, clearance, mopping up, purgation, purging, purification, riddance). (various references)

Italian

purgare (expurgate, give a laxative to, purify), pulire (bream, clean, cleanse, make, make clean, mop, pick, scavenge, scrub, sweep, wash, wipe), epurazione (mopping up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粛清 , バ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "bu", par, park, park-and-ride, Parker, parking, parking area, parking driver, parking meter, parking valet, Parkinson, parse, parsec, parser, parsing, partial, partial freezing, pass, PC, percent, percentage, perceptron, percolator, percussion, pergola, personal, personal call, personal check, personal communication, personal computer, personal opinion, personal selling, personality, perspective, purse, purser). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パージ , しゅくせい (age of decline, enforcement, precocity, regulation). (various references)

Korean 

퍼지. (various references)

Malay

membersihkan (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Manx

seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, ease, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exempt, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, release, relieve, riddance, vindication, vindication act of), scooirey (catharsis, furbish, looseness, polish, scour, scrub), scaggey, purgaid (black draught, catharsis, drench), glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, clean, cleaner, clearance; glass, discharge, draw, draw as fowl, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purification, purify, rid, satisfaction, scale, scavenge, settlement, sink, try out, try out as metal, weed, wipe). (various references)

Papiamen

purifiká (clean, cleanse, make clean), limpia (clean, cleanse, have sex, make clean, screw). (various references)

Pig Latin

urgepay.(various references)

Polish

czyścić (clean, cleanse, make clean). (various references)

Portuguese

limpar (bream, brush, clean, cleanse, delete, depurate, fettle, furbish, make clean, mop up, purify, rake, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), purificar (chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, defecate, depurate, distil, distill, elutriate, fine, purify, rarefy, reconcile, rectify, refine, scrub, sweeten, wash), purgar (depurate, purify). (various references)

Romanian

purifica (chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, defecate, make clean, purify, rectify, sanctify, still, sublimate), purga (expurgate), se purga, se curãţa (purify), scãpa (acquit, break free, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, put back, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), face curat (clean, cleanse, make clean), epurare, epura (defecate, expurgate, filter, purify), curåţa (clean, cleanse, make clean), curãţie, curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

слабить, слабительное (aperitive, cathartic, detergent, laxative, loosener, physic), чистка (cleaning, scour, shake up, sweep), чистить (clean, peeling, pumice, scour), очищение (abstersion, catharsis, clarification, defecation, depuration, evacuation, lustration, purification, rectification, refinement, sublimation), очищать (brighten, chasten, clarify, clean, clean out, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, defecate, depurate, deterge, distil, edulcorate, evacuate, mop up, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scoured, scouring, scours). (various references)

Scottish

purgaid (a purge), burgaid (a purge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pročistiti (cleanse), očistiti (clean, clean off, cleanse, clear, do away, expurgate, scavenge, scour, shine, swab), čistka. (various references)

Spanish

limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), purga (bleeding). (various references)

Sranan

krin (clean, cleanse, make clean, pure). (various references)

Swedish

rena (clean, cleanse, defecate, depurate, fine, make clean, purify, refine), utrensning (expurgation), rensa (clean, cleanse, clear, draw, dress, eviscerate, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, pick over, sanitize, scour, shell, weed). (various references)

Thai

กำจั�" (junk, kiss away, lose, shed), การกำจั�", ล้างมลทิน. (various references)

Turkish

müshil almak, arındırma (decontamination), arındırmak (clean, cleanse, decontaminate, purify), ayiklamak (clean, cleanse, make clean), bağırsakları boşaltma, bağırsakları boşaltmak, istenmeyen kişilerden temizleme, aklamak (absolve, acquit, blanch, brighten, clear, exculpate, exonerate, justify, launder, whiten, whitewash), müshil alma, temizlik (chastity, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanup, combout, house cleaning, hygiene, neatness, purity), tasfiye (cleanup, clearance, close out, combout, dissolution, house cleaning, liquidation, purification, refinement, settlement, takeout, winding up), tasfiye etmek (clear up, close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, pay up, revive, sell off, sell out, try out, wind up), temize çıkarmak (absolve, acquit, clear, exculpate, exonerate, vindicate, whitewash), temizleme (clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, expurgation, purgation, purification, sweep, wipe), temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear up, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), temizlenmek (be cleaned, clarify), istenmeyen kişilerden temizlemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

чистка (cleaning, clearance, scour, scrub), очищення (abstersion, calcination, clarification, cleaning, clearance, defecation, depuration, elimination, evacuation, expurgation, filtering, purgation), очищати (alcoholize, chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, defecate, depurate, deterge, fine, outwash, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scale, weed), загладжувати злочин, проносне (aperient, cathartic, depletive, evacuant, laxative, physic, purgative), позбавляти (abridge, bare, denude, deprive, despoil, divest, oust, reave, release), давати проносне. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuốc xổ (purgative), sự xổ, sự tẩy (obliteration), sự l� m sạch (abstersion, purgation, purification). (various references)

Welsh

ysgothi (spurt, squirt), gweithio (ferment, work), carthu (cleanse, scavenge). (various references)

defaeco, evacuabit, evacuabitur, evacuabuntur, evacuandam, evacuans, evacuasti, evacuata, evacuate, evacuati, evacuatum, evacuatur, evacuaverit, evacuetur, purgare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "purge": purged, purger, purgers, purges. (additional references)

Words ending with "purge": spurge. (additional references)

Words containing "purge": spurges, unpurged. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Purge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lurge, lurgee, Lurgi, nurge, Parga, parge, Pargo, Pereg, perega, Perga, Pergau, perge, Perger, pirge, plurge, porgh, ppurge, Pruger, prurgh, puga, puge, pugree, pugry, pulge, punga, Pungu, purce, purg, purgo, purie, purle, purme, purte, pwurgh, pyrg, pyrgic, pyrgoi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: grue, pure, urge.

-2 letters: erg, peg, per, pug, pur, reg, rep, rue, rug.

-3 letters: er, pe, re, up.

+1 letter: gulper, pugree, purged, purger, purges, repugn, spurge, upgrew.

+2 letters: earplug, graupel, grouped, grouper, groupie, grumped, guipure, gulpers, gulpier, gyplure, pirogue, plaguer, plugger, plunger, pudgier, pugaree, puggier, puggree, pugrees, purgers, regroup, repugns, splurge, spurges, upgrade, upsurge.

+3 letters: earplugs, erupting, expunger, fireplug, gazumper, glumpier, graupels, groupers, groupies, grumphie, grumpier, guipures, gunpaper, gyplures, impugner, oppugner, perusing, pirogues, plaguers, plougher, pluggers, plungers, prejudge, prevuing, prologue, promulge, prorogue, pugarees, puggaree, puggrees, puggries, pureeing, regroups, replunge, repugned, reputing, resprung, speargun, splurged, splurger, splurges, superego, supering, umpirage, unpurged, upgather, upgirded, upgraded, upgrades, upsurged, upsurges.