Medicine. transitive. To eliminate or expel (waste or harmful matter, etc.) from the body or an organ.

transferred. To relax or loosen (the bowels). Also absol. Obsolete.

transitive. To dose or treat with medicine, esp. a purgative. Now colloquial.

Of a medicine, or of one who administers it: To purge (an animal, a person, the body, etc.); to evacuate (the stomach or bowels). Also, to cleanse…

intransitive. To become loose in the bowels; to purge.

To relax, relieve the costiveness of, cause a free evacuation of (the bowels).

transitive. To empty; = evacuate, v. 1.

transitive. To cause the emptying of (a person’s bowels, bladder, or stomach). Also: to empty (one’s bowels, bladder, or stomach) (also occasionally…

transitive. To purge the bowels of.