PURGE


Meaning of PURGE in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Employees leaving the government were encouraged to purge their computer files.

In the North, Sung systematically purged those whom he considered a threat.

Many radicals were purged from the party in the early seventies.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Because I need to purge myself of the past more than anything.

He had whipped his Machine into line, shelved the old competitors, purged the incorrigibles.

It was as if Lucie's pride had been purged away by standing in that vat of swirling morning mist.

Lately, with each round of corporate purging and bingeing, Marco has been feeling his time draw close.

Modernism may well have been purged from public view, but to the determined specialist it was still covertly available.

Mr van der Luyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vulgar passions.

Under Americanism the country was to be purged of foreign political elements.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Stalin's purges of the 1930s

There was a purge of the military commanders who had supported the coup.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Even if that in turn led to a purge , the president would emerge stronger.

In the collective unconscious, perhaps everyone wanted a change, a purge .

Nor, it seems, might the purge cease there.

Other purges, other forced confessions and other suicides followed.

The consequences of these purges was that the government was now more harsh than ever.

The state government has begun a new purge , with plans to cut demand by imposing a surcharge.

They would be content to see another purge of the suspects, such as myself.

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