Word Finder - purge

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An act of purging.

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An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.

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A cleansing of pipes.

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A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.

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Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.

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That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

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To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.

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To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds

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To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

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To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.

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To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.

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To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation

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To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).

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To become pure, as by clarification.

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

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To trim, dress or prune.

The oil will purge when rubbed into the skin or injected per rectum.

In spite of her resolve to purge the fear from the living room, it increased until it threatened to take over the entire house.

Do you have anyone you'd rather I not purge?

Bulimia is based on the premise of binge and purge.

Saddam's first period in office witnessed a bloody purge of the Iraqi left.

So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

They also incited a bloody purge of the old order.

Someone with bulimia will have a very chaotic eating pattern where they binge eat and then purge (get rid of their food).

Sufferers will eat massive quantities of food and then purge their bodies of this food through induced vomiting or the use of laxatives and diuretics.

Victims of this purge include Wifi-Where and Sekai Camera.

As you develop the self-discipline to conquer a few bad habits, you may gradually build the self-control to purge your life of all harmful practices.

Some bingers are so desperate to lose weight that they will binge because they are starving, but then they will purge in some way to "atone" for having consumed such great quantities of food.

To get started, purge your kitchen of all "off limits" foods and stock up with those allowed during all of the phases of the South Beach Diet.

Cromwell was essentially a conservative reformer; in his attempts to purge the court of chancery of its most flagrant abuses, and to settle the ecclesiastical affairs of the nation, he showed himself anxious to retain as much of the existing system as could be left untouched without doing positive evil.

In 1489 he was accused of magic before Pope Innocent VIII., and had to secure the good offices of Francesco Soderini, Ermolao Barbaro, and the archbishop Rinaldo Orsini, in order to purge himself of a most perilous imputation.

He was, however, in favour of accepting the king's terms at Newport in December, and in consequence was excluded from the House by Pride's Purge.

It may be noted that sugar that will not purge easily and freely with clay will not purge easily and freely in centrifugals.

The result was his inclusion in "Pride's Purge" on the 'morning of the 6th, when, having resisted to military violence, he was imprisoned.

The consecration took place on the 10th of April 428, and then, almost immediately afterwards, in what is said to have been his first patriarchal sermon, Nestorius exhorted the emperor in the famous words - "Purge me, 0 Caesar, the earth of heretics, and I in return will give thee heaven.

It promised me I'd have the power to seize all the kingdoms around Tiyan and bring them to heel, to purge them of evil and rescue their people.

A purge followed, and in 1579 every JP was required to swear fidelity to the established religion.

When it has killed the Chameleon it takes laurel as a purge.

The judge instructed him to purge himself with the aid of five neighbors, and issued a new monition.

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Someone with bulimia will have a very chaotic eating pattern where they binge eat and then purge (get rid of their food ).

A second stage scuba regulator also has a purge button which forces the intake valve to open.

A purge of that dimension can be a fairly seismic experience in its own right.

To explicate, however, and purge the meaning of that "strong heart" and "clean" which the savage after his fashion can wish and ask for, remained the task of the higher and more self-conscious types of religion.

From an active instrument of the religious society, the archiepiscopate degenerated into a purely formal power; while the episcopate itself, which the sincere reformers wished to liberate and purge in order to strengthen it, emerged from the crisis sensibly weakened as well as ameliorated.

Fourcroy endeavoured to persuade it to purge itself of suspected members.

Another one could be a sticking carbon canister purge valve.

This is achieved by flushing the desiccant bed with a flow of purge air which may or may not be heated.

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So the exercise in chapter 5 is to purge out all leaven that ye may be a new lump.

Thy blood so freely spilled, can blanch my blackest stains and purge away my guilt.

Then there was a waif named Griff and someone called Wallace Lorrimer, but none of these survived the purge of 1903-4.

When the weight of your briefcase creates the urge to purge, you'll know you've got too much.

An exception to the six-year purge date is any P.E.I. public records, which are purged from the system within seven to ten years.

Although most bulimics vomit or use laxatives to purge food from the body, some people with this eating disorder will alternate binge eating with fasting or periods of excessive exercise.

If you have used these substances in the past and stopped, it may take as much as five years to purge chemicals from your soil.

As it turns out, the "great app purge of 2010" was not only for sexually-themed applications, but for other iPhone apps as well.

People with bulimia, known as bulimics, consume large amounts of food (binge) and then try to rid themselves of the food and calories (purge) by fasting, excessive exercise, vomiting, or using laxatives.

Refurbished desktop computer resellers have in-house tech departments that do complete system operation checks and purge viruses and spyware before offering the computers for resale.

If you are looking to purge your living space of dirt, grime and multiple seasons' worth of gunk, then these simple tips on spring cleaning the home will help get the job done.

Binge-eaters do not purge in the same ways as bulimics, nor do they usually engage in excessive exercise or other compensatory behaviours.

Men and women of all ranks began to visit it; the emperor himself consented (f 887) to witness a performance by the great stars of the stage at the private residence of Marquis Inouye; a dramatic reform association was organized by a number of prominent noblemen and scholars; drastic efforts were made to purge the old historical dramas of anachronisms and inconsistencies, and at length a theatre (the Yurabu-za) was built on purely European lines, where instead of sitting from morning to night witnessing one long-drawn-out drama with interludes of whole farces, a visitor may devote only a few evening-hours to the pastime.

Ablutions both of persons and things are usually cathartic, that is, intended to purge away evil influences (KaOaipa y, to make KaOapos, pure).

A prayer was offered that "for us and all who sail thereon the sea may be calm and quiet," whereupon the doge and the others were solemnly aspersed with holy water, the rest of which was thrown into the sea while the priests chanted "Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean."

The Work To reform the Church in every grade and purge of Gregory the priesthood in order to shield it from feudal VII.

The duke as a devout Catholic desired to purge the state of heresy, and initiated repressive measures against the Waldenses, but after some severe and not very successful fighting he ended by allowing them a measure of religious liberty in those valleys (156r).