Synonyms for purging
purg·ing

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1. purge, purgingnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   purge, purgation

2. purge, purging, purgationadjective

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

   Synonyms:
   catharsis, purification, purge, katharsis, purgation

3. purgatorial, purging, purifyingadjective

   serving to purge or rid of sin

   "purgatorial rites"

   Synonyms:
   purifying, purgatorial, cleansing

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1. • Cleaning

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1. purgingnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) diarrhœa, relax, flux

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1. List of paraphrases for "purging":

   debugging, purge, debug, scrubbing, cleansing, purification

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1. Maryam Rajavi:

   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.

2. Randy Credico:

   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.

3. Richard Spencer:

   There is a great purge going on and they are purging people on the basis of their views.

4. Max Lerner:

   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.

5. Matthew Bryza:

   There is nothing the U.S. government can do to dissuade President Erdogan from purging the Turkish military and judiciary from people he views as a threat, president Erdogan will simply do this, period. He views such measures as both a matter of survival and then as a means to significantly greater power.