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Look up: Purge

  1. purge
    [n] - the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge 2. [n] - an act of removing by cleansing 3. [v] - oust politically 4. [v] - clear of a charge 5. [v] - rid of impurities 6. [v] - excrete or evacuate (someone`s bowels or body)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. purge
    Removal (for example, from a political party) of suspected opponents or persons regarded as undesirable (often by violent means). During the 1930s purges were conducted in the USSR under Joseph...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  3. purge
    to remove unwanted records from a file Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Purge
    Purge transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Purged ; present participle & verbal noun Purging .] [ French purger , Latin purgare ; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See Pure , and Agent .] 1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, he ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/197

  5. Purge
    Purge intransitive verb 1. To become pure, as by clarification. 2. To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/197

  6. Purge
    Purge noun [ Confer French purge . See Purge , transitive verb ] 1. The act of purging. « The preparative for the purge of paganism of the kingdom of Northumberland.» Fuller. 2. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Arbuthnot.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/197

  7. purge
    1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. 'Till fire purge all things new.' ... 2. <medicine> To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. ... 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. ... 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. purge
    purging noun an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. purge
    verb make pure or free from sin or guilt; `he left the monastery purified`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Purge
    In history and political science, to `purge` is to remove people considered by the group in power to be `undesirable` from a government, political party, a profession, or from community or society as a whole, often by violent means. Restoration of people from a purge is known as `rehabilitation`.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purge

  11. purge
    (purj) to cleanse or purify; to remove undesirable substances from something. to cause evacuation of feces.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  12. Purge
    • (v. t.) To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. • (v. t.) The act of purging. • (v. i.) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic. • (v. t.) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. • (v. t.) To operate on as, or by means of, a c...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. Purge
    The process of eliminating duplicates and/or unwanted names and addresses from one or more lists.
    Found on http://www.nmoa.org/Library/index.htm

  14. Purge
    The process of eliminating duplicates and/or unwanted names and addresses from one or more lists.
    Found on http://www.the-cma.org/public.asp?WCE=C=

  15. purge
    To rid a line or tank of residual fluid, especially of fuel or oxidizer in the tanks or lines of a rocket after a test firing or simulated test firing. It is done using a purging system that introduces a noncombustible gas, such as carbon dioxide, into the space above propellants to sweep out any to...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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