|
WordNet-Online
Free dictionary and thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms and more...
Hint: double-click any word to get it searched!
Adjective purging has 1 sense
- purgatorial, purging, purifying - serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
Noun purging has 2 senses
- purge, purging - an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
--1 is a kind of cleaning, cleansing, cleanup
--1 has particulars:
- purge, purging, purgation - the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
--2 is a kind of clearing
--2 has particulars: purification
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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- purge - clear of a charge
--2 is one way to acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- purify, purge, sanctify - make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- purge - rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
--4 is one way to purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- 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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
|