Synonyms for purge
pɜrdʒpurge

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1. purge

   Synonyms:
   cleanse, clear, clarify, purify

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1. purge, purging, purgationnoun

   the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

   Synonyms:
   catharsis, purification, katharsis, purging, purgation

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

2. purge, purgingnoun

   an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

   Synonyms:
   purging, purgation

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

3. purgeverb

   an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place

   "he died in a purge by Stalin"

   Synonyms:
   purging, purgation

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

4. purgeverb

   oust politically

   "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

   Synonyms:
   cat, puke, purify, sanctify, chuck, sick, spue, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, vomit up, scour, upchuck, spew, barf, throw up, be sick, retch, honk, flush, regorge

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

5. purgeverb

   clear of a charge

   Synonyms:
   cat, puke, purify, sanctify, chuck, sick, spue, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, vomit up, scour, upchuck, spew, barf, throw up, be sick, retch, honk, flush, regorge

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

6. purify, purge, sanctifyverb

   make pure or free from sin or guilt

   "he left the monastery purified"

   Synonyms:
   cat, puke, make pure, purify, sanctify, chuck, sick, hallow, spue, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, vomit up, distill, scour, consecrate, upchuck, spew, barf, throw up, be sick, retch, sublimate, bless, honk, flush, regorge

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

7. purgeverb

   rid of impurities

   "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

   Synonyms:
   cat, puke, purify, sanctify, chuck, sick, spue, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, vomit up, scour, upchuck, spew, barf, throw up, be sick, retch, honk, flush, regorge

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

8. flush, scour, purgeverb

   rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

   "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

   Synonyms:
   redden, sluice, puke, regorge, honk, sanctify, crimson, vomit up, scour, even out, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, blush, spue, upchuck, abrade, sick, barf, throw up, spew, scrub, be sick, chuck, retch, cat, even, level, flush, purify

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

9. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw upverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   vomit, eruct, vagabond, gag, throw off, scour, range, frame, ramble, ptyalise, put, cat, claxon, ditch, honk, spill, barf, wander, hurtle, sick, stray, rove, swan, roll, cronk, spew out, chuck, toot, puke, throw, cast, ptyalize, redact, spue, beep, be sick, spit, regorge, blare, purify, vomit up, mould, mold, cast off, shake off, upchuck, disgorge, toss, throw away, heave, tramp, sanctify, contrive, drop, draw, flush, spew, hurl, regurgitate, throw up, drift, reproduce, couch, project, retch, pat, roam, shed

   Antonyms:
   rehabilitate

10. purgeverb

    excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)

    "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

    Synonyms:
    cat, puke, purify, sanctify, chuck, sick, spue, cast, disgorge, vomit, regurgitate, vomit up, scour, upchuck, spew, barf, throw up, be sick, retch, honk, flush, regorge

    Antonyms:
    rehabilitate

Matched Categories

1. • Change
   • Cleaning
   • Clear
   • Clearing
   • Eliminate
   • Persecute
   • Purify
   • Treat

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1. purgeverb

   Synonyms:
   cleanse, clear, purify, clarify, free from impurity

2. purgenoun

   Synonyms:
   PURGATIVE

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1. purgenoun

   Synonyms:
   physic, purgative, cathartic

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1. List of paraphrases for "purge":

   debug, debugging, bleed, bleeder, cleansing, purging, depuration, bleeding, purification, debugs, lustration, purged, scrubbing, clean-up, s.s., cleanse, flush

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1. Alice Walker:

   Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.

2. Dianne Feinstein:

   The purge of senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security is unprecedented and a threat to our national security.

3. Jacqueline Robinson:

   They're essentially the marine equivalent of an island species, the vaquitas' naturally low abundance has allowed them to gradually purge highly deleterious recessive gene variants that might negatively affect their health under inbreeding.

4. Kenneth Chan Ka-lok:

   There will be a lot of intimidation from work places onwards, spreading out to schools, to academia, to the legislative council, government offices and so on, i don't think it's possible to have a political purge in Hong Kong but it might become something that we haven’t experienced before in Hong Kong. They may try to blackmail people, to weaken our determination.

5. Chris Hayes:

   Trump has every reason to believe Barr will use his new powers to aid the Presidents anti-deep state propaganda efforts, trump giving Barr unilateral authority over classification is just a huge deal in the world of Intelligence agencies. Barr will be able to override other agencies independent classification determinations. And the goal of all this here seems pretty clear. Its basically to give Sean Hannity material for his television show. So the plan, as it appears now, is essentially a kind of purge of the ideologically suspect members of the intelligence apparatus.