Definition of purge

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Purge (v. t.) The act of purging.

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Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic..
Absterge :: Absterge (v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge..
Cato-cathartic :: Cato-cathartic (n.) A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.
Purged :: Purged (imp. & p. p.) of Purg.
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
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..
Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Cathartic :: Cathartic (n.) A medicine that promotes alvine discharges; a purge; a purgative of moderate activity.
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To purge; as, to scour a horse..
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..
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime..
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner..
Purge :: Purge (v. i.) To become pure, as by clarification..
Expurge :: Expurge (v. t.) To purge away.
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
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