Definitions
1.nounAn act of purging.
2.nounAn evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
3.nounA cleansing of pipes.
4.nounA forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity."Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible."
5.nounThat which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
6.verbTo clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
7.verbTo free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
8.verbTo remove by cleansing; to wash away.
9.verbTo void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
10.verbTo cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
11.verbTo clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
12.verbTo clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
13.verbTo become pure, as by clarification.
14.verbTo have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
15.verbTo trim, dress or prune.