Purge

·vi To become pure, as by clarification.

II. Purge ·vt The act of Purging.

III. Purge ·vt To Clarify; to defecate, as liquors.

IV. Purge ·vt To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.

V. Purge ·vt That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

VI. Purge ·vi To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

VII. Purge ·vt To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.

VIII. Purge ·vt To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.

IX. Purge ·vt To remove in cleansing; to Deterge; to wash away;

— often followed by away.

X. Purge ·vt To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.

XI. Purge ·vt To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.