purging

1. 1.

   serving to purge or rid of sin

   “purgatorial rites”

   Synonymspurgatorialpurifying

Other forms of purging

plural

purgings·

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.

Questions about purging

What does purging mean?

purging means "an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purging?

purging has 2 syllables: pur-ging. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpɝdʒɪŋ/.

What is another word for purging?

Close synonyms include purge, purge, purgation, purgatorial, purifying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purging a common word?

purging is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.