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Verb purge has 7 senses
- purge - oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
--1 is one way to persecute, oppress
Antonyms: rehabilitate
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- purge - clear of a charge
--2 is one way to acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate
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- purify, purge, sanctify - make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- purge - rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
--4 is one way to purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
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- flush, scour, purge - rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
--5 is one way to rinse, rinse off
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- vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up - 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"
--6 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
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- purge - excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
--7 is one way to treat, care for
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