purge
清洗,清理,肃清,清除
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Definitions
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purged, purg·ing.
- : to rid of whatever is impure or undesirable; cleanse; purify.
- : to rid, clear, or free: to purge a political party of disloyal members.
- : to clear of imputed guilt or ritual uncleanliness.
- : to clear away or wipe out legally by atonement or other suitable action.
- : to remove by cleansing or purifying.
- : to clear or empty by inducing vomiting or evacuation.
- : to cause evacuation of the bowels of.
- : to put to death or otherwise eliminate from a political organization, government, nation, etc.
- : Metallurgy. to drive off from a furnace or stove.to free of undesirable gases.
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purged, purg·ing.
- : to become cleansed or purified.
- : to clear or empty the stomach or bowels by inducing vomiting or evacuation: A bulimic individual who binges and purges often will experience physical changes that make stopping the cycle extremely difficult.
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- : the act or process of purging.
- : the removal or elimination of members of a political organization, government, nation, etc., who are considered disloyal or otherwise undesirable.
- : something that purges, as a purgative medicine or laxative.
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Examples
The members alleged an ideological purge of the party, given most of them were aligned with the tea party.
Facebook has confirmed in a statement to Quartz Africa that it carried out the purge because the affected individuals and groups where using the platform to manipulate voters ahead of the elections.
Four Xiaomi apps, including its web browser and video-calling platform, were caught in the purge and, according to Jain, a “mob mentality” on social media threatened its sales.
The study suggests that the melting of Alaska’s remaining glaciers into the North Pacific, though less extreme than purges of the past, could have far-ranging effects on global ocean circulation and the climate in coming centuries.
Eligible voters have been disenfranchised in purges of voting rolls in several states.
“I thought my reward would be that I could purge my relationship with people in the religious community,” she says.
After the initial, gag-inducing swallows, I waited for the purge.
He simply happened to be in one of those sections of Red Army intelligence which in some purge or other ceased to exist.
When Internet censors purge references to “6/4,” users substitute “May 35.”
A friend suggested I write down everything that happened to me to help purge the images from my mind.
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.
The Irish, according to Everards, used large quantities of snuff "to purge their brains."
To rule sound out of language, is, indeed, far more fatal than to purge Hamlet out of Hamlet.
Refine and purge our earthy parts; But, oh, inflame and fire our hearts!
Chum has found, however, that his particular mission in life is to purge his master's garden of all birds.