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. Pearson Cross:

   This election has not been about Bill Cassidy, this election has been about the negative press that the President has gotten and the ability of Bill Cassidy to tie Barack Obama and( Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid to Mary Landrieu. In this final act Saturday, the Louisiana race will test the limits of the vaunted Mary Landrieu turnout operation, particularly in Orleans Parish, which has been the family stronghold for generations. After Hurricane Katrina, Mary Landrieu operatives were vigilant about maintaining their voter data — scrubbing their voter files to make sure addresses and phone numbers were up to date after each purge of voters who had moved out of state by the Secretary of State's office. Landrieu's campaign also partnered with the Democratic Party to register scores of new voters across the state this year, focusing particularly on ushering new black voters into the party. In Saturday's election, it is hard to underestimate the importance of Landrieu's turnout operation in Orleans Parish, which encompasses the city of New Orleans.

3. Emma Sinclair-Webb:

   It is an unvarnished move for an arbitrary, mass and permanent purge of the civil service, prosecutors and judges, and to close down private institutions and associations without evidence, justification or due process.

4. Dianne Feinstein:

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

5. Bill Maher:

   This is why I'm a little hopeful that this purity purge may end because it's starting to eat its own, eSPN reporter Rachel Nichols was a feminist success story but when she complained in a private telephone call about ESPN's crappy longtime record on diversity and expressed her view that she felt like she was being sacrificed by the network so they could make up for that crappy longtime record on diversity, the call was leaked and she was toast. Now, in addition to the fact that a person should have to love getting fired, even if it does achieve more equity, this was a private call ! Does ‘ private ’ mean anything anymore ? Apparently not !