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▸ noun: (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
▸ noun: A cleansing of pipes.
▸ noun: A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
▸ noun: That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
▸ verb: (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
▸ verb: (transitive, religion) To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
▸ verb: (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
▸ verb: (transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
▸ verb: (transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.
▸ verb: (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
▸ verb: (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
▸ verb: (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.
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purgation,
clear-out,
expunction,
expunging,
eradication,
vacuation,
depletion,
binge-purge,
expunctuation,
emptying,
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