to purge

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An act of purging
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
A cleansing of pipes
to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting
A forcible removal of people from political activity

Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.

to void the bowels; to vomit
{v} to cleanse, purify, clear from guilt, clear, clarify, discharge by stool, have stools
{n} a medicin, a medicin causing stools
excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
A momentary opening to allow a fluid to escape
oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous
To force a gas through the water sample to liberate volatile chemicals or other gases from the water so their level can be measured
If you purge something of undesirable things, you get rid of them. He closed his eyes and lay still, trying to purge his mind of anxiety = rid
eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
- The pushing out of air with steam
To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape
To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner
to force a gas through a water sample to liberate volatile chemicals or other gases from the water so their level can be measured
The act of purging
to void the bowel
Flushing out of a cylinder, manifold or other equipment by flowing an inert gas through them to remove contamination, residues from previous gas service or air when handling pyrophoric gases
This function removes canceled or expired records from a file to make space available for new records Purge also reorganizes the files to increase system efficiency and compares and confirms inter-file data accuracy
To become pure, as by clarification
To eliminate inactive records from court files
(noun or verb) To clean or expel To force the ink through the manifold or through the chamber/orifice to clean out debris or air
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic
The removal of sensitive data from an AIS at the end of a period of processing, including from AIS storage devices and other peripheral devices with storage capacity, in such a way that there is assurance proportional to the sensitivity of the data that the data may not be reconstructed through open-ended laboratory techniques An AIS must be disconnected from any external network before a purge
To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime
To flush a jar, bottle, can, bag, or vial with a gas, such as nitrogen, to remove another undesired gas prior to filling
To remove or release fluid from a system
to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To render stored applications, files, and other information on a system unrecoverable See also sanitize
{f} purify, remove contamination; clean, remove dirt; defecate, empty the bowels
clear of a charge oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime
SharedObject purge
– Pumping out well water to remove drilling debris or impurities; also conducted to bring fresh groundwater up into the casing for sample collection The latter is a means of collecting a representative water sample from the groundwater being investigated
an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
A discharge from the deceased through the mouth, nose and ears of matter from the stomach and intestine caused by improper or ineffectual embalming, due to putrefaction
v To cleanse or to free from impurities; to rid of sin, guilt or defilement The body, the mind, and the spirit are all capable of purging, that is, they are each capable of the removal of impurities of substance, thought or emotions
Removal of traces of fuel, solvents etc to safe vapour levels
rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
The process of eliminating duplicates and/or unwanted names from one or more lists
To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal
To purge an organization of its unacceptable members means to remove them from it. You can also talk about purging people from an organization. The leadership voted to purge the party of `hostile and anti-party elements' He recently purged the armed forces, sending hundreds of officers into retirement They have purged thousands from the upper levels of the civil service. Purge is also a noun. The army have called for a more thorough purge of people associated with the late President
clear of a charge
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
{i} cleansing; cleaning of excess files from a hard disk (Computers); erasing of a file without the option of canceling the erasure (Computers); diarrhetic drug, cathartic
an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
Allows the whole dictionary to be wiped
The process of removing duplicates and other unwanted names and addresses from a list or lists
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors
evacuation of the bowels or of pipes
rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
To permanently remove or delete unneeded data from a computer
The action of deleting or archiving information from a database, so the data is no longer present
- the process of eliminating duplicates and/or unwanted names from one or more lists
forcible removal of undesirable people from political activity, etc
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic
To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; often followed by away