purge

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  1. transitive verb To free from impurities; purify.
  2. transitive verb To remove (impurities and other elements) by or as if by cleansing.
  3. transitive verb To rid of sin, guilt, or defilement.
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  • Every night is a sleepless night … and a purge is always coming. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • Provided there's been no MT file server purge, my disdain for "Professor" Jack is well-archived. —  Metro Times
  • Locke will end up being the one that orders the purge, and it will be so ironic because Locke, not Ben, will be the one ultimately responsible for all those deaths. —  LOST Spoilers
  • The easier route is, first, to uninstall that broken version of Postr with a simple apt-get remove postr -- purge (as root of course) and grab that fixed version from the Shutter website. —  LXer Linux News
  • A few moments during the purge were tough. —  Do It Myself Blog - Glenda Watson Hyatt
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgāre, from pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also pourge; from Middle English purgen, from Old French (and F.) purger = Provencal Spanish Portuguese purgar = Italian purgare, from Latin purgare, make pure, cleanse, from purus, clean, pure, + agere, make, do.
  2. from purge, v.
 

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