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say it: purj
purge is a verb and noun meaning "oust politically". It carries 10 recorded senses.
oust politically
“Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime”
clear of a charge
make pure or free from sin or guilt
“he left the monastery purified”
excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
“The doctor decided that the patient must be purged”
the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place
“he died in a purge by Stalin”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for purge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.