| 单词 | purge |
| 释义 | purge (once / 901 pages) 1vn 2vn 3v To purge is to get rid of something or someone, and often it’s done suddenly. Purge rhymes with urge, and when you have a really strong urge to throw stuff away or clean something out, you have an urge to purge. From the Latin purgare, meaning "purify," purge is used as a verb for removing impure things, whether they're guilty feelings in a person or rotten vegetables in a refrigerator. As a noun, the act of tossing out the too-small clothes in your closet before getting new ones might be called a purge. It can be a very bad act, too, as when individuals have an unhealthy urge to purge or empty their stomachs after eating or when a military group decides to purge a certain ethnic group from a country. WORD FAMILYpurge: purgation, purgative, purged, purges, purging+/purgation: purgations/purgative: purgatives/purging: purgingly, purgings USAGE EXAMPLESA one-time Cabinet candidate, Christie ran Trump’s transition before he and his allies were purged from the operation in the week after Election Day. Time(Dec 01, 2016) Clingman told Chief Public Defender Ben Baur that he could purge the contempt findings by following his statutory duty to represent defendants. Washington Times(Nov 30, 2016) A management shake-up purged those responsible for a series of past mistakes, and a big bump in spending has not hurt, either. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1 1v rid of impurities purge the water purge your mind Hyper distill, make pure, purify, sublimate remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation 2v make pure or free from sin or guilt Syn|Hypo|Hyper purify, sanctify spiritualise, spiritualize purify from the corrupting influences of the world lustratepurify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid purge the old gas tank Syn|Hyper flush, scour rinse, rinse off wash off soap or remaining dirt 4v clear of a charge Hyper acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate pronounce not guilty of criminal charges 5n the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge Syn|Hypo|Hyper purgation, purging purification the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing clearing the act of freeing from suspicion 6n an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper purging abreaction, catharsis, katharsis (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions catharsis, katharsis, purgationpurging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels cleaning, cleansing, cleanup the act of making something clean 1v oust politically Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime Ant|Hyper rehabilitate reinstall politically oppress, persecute cause to suffer 2n an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place 3he died in a purge by Stalin Hyper removal dismissal from office 1v eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth He purged continuously Syn|Ant|Hyper barf, be sick, chuck, disgorge, throw up, vomit up keep down manage not to throw up egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body 2v excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body) The doctor decided that the patient must be purged Hyper care for, treat provide treatment for |
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