Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.

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Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
Expurgate :: Expurgate (v. t.) To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book..
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe..
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal..
Ricinus :: Ricinus (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi..
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..
Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To be purged freely; to have a diarrhoea.
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
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