PURGE

vi to become pure, as by clarification.

2. purge ·vt the act of purging.

3. purge ·vt to clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

4. purge ·vt to operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

5. purge ·vt that which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

6. purge ·vi to have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

7. purge ·vt to clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.

8. purge ·vt to clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

9. purge ·vt to remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away;

— often followed by away.

10. purge ·vt to clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.

11. purge ·vt to cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.