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Synonyms for purging
purg·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
purge, purgingnoun
an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
purge, purging, purgationadjective
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
Synonyms:
catharsis, purification, purge, katharsis, purgationpurgatorial, purging, purifyingadjective
serving to purge or rid of sin
"purgatorial rites"
Synonyms:
purifying, purgatorial, cleansing
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6365 | debug | |
#11216 | debugging | |
#11996 | purification | |
#14151 | cleansing | |
#21908 | purge | |
#37012 | purifying | |
#42697 | scrubbing | |
#44190 | purging | |
#68560 | catharsis | |
#237860 | purgation |
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Khamenei took steps to consolidate the regime and maximize repression by purging presidential candidates who had participated in all of the regime’s crimes over the past 40 years. This is a clear sign of the regime’s crisis of overthrow and the final phase of the religious, terrorist dictatorship.
There is a great purge going on and they are purging people on the basis of their views.
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
There is no question there is a purging underway, the dissenters in the recent Supreme Court decision on gay marriage warned us this would happen.
When they put this out and they used my name and my letter, they're basically trying to rationalize the cleansing, the purging of the Justice Department and the judiciary. This is very dangerous. That's a cynical move on their part.
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