Usually means: Eliminate or remove something unwanted.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. purge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purge, purge: Wordnik
  7. purge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. purge: Wiktionary
  9. purge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. purge: Dictionary.com
  13. purge (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. purge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Purge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. purge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. purge: Rhymezone
  19. purge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. purge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. purge: Free Dictionary
  22. purge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. purge: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Purge (repression), purge: Legal dictionary
  4. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Purge (repression), purge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Purge (repression), purge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Political
  2. PURGE: Acronym Finder
  3. purge: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Purge: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See purged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An act of purging.
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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