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What does purge mean?

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Noun
  1. An act of purging.
  2. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
  3. A cleansing of pipes.
  4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
  5. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
Verb
  1. (transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
  2. (religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
  3. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
  4. (medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
  5. (medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
  6. (transitive, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
  7. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
  8. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
  9. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
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