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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Drench :: Drench (v. t.) To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape..
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Soil :: Soil (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse..
Physic :: Physic (n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Emend :: Emend (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal..
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors..
Physic :: Physic (v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge..
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
Wartwort :: Wartwort (n.) A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis)..
Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Spurgewort :: Spurge (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
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