Word Meanings - PURGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt,

Additional info about word: PURGE

To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime. When that he hath purged you from sin. Chaucer. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Ps. li. 7. (more info) 1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. "Till fire purge all things new." Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURGE)

• Scour
• Purge
• cleanse
• rinse
• scrub

Related words: (words related to PURGE)

• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• SCRUBBER
  A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
• SCRUBBED
  Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
• PURGER
  One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine.
• SCOURAGE
  Refuse water after scouring.
• RINSER
  One who, or that which, rinses.
• SCRUBBOARD
  A baseboard; a mopboard.
• CLEANSE
  To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
• PURGERY
  The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
• PURGE
  To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt,
• SCOURSE
  See SCORSE
• RINSE
  1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. 2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.
• SCRUB
  To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.
• SCOURGER
  One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.
• CLEANSER
  One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
• SCOUR
  To pass swiftly over; to brush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder , a basic slag,
• SCOURER
  1. One who, or that which, scours. 2. A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.
• SCRUBSTONE
  A species of calciferous sandstone.
• SCOURGE
  stripped off , fr. excoriate to strip, to skin. See 1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• DISCOURSIVE
  1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. 2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. 3. Inclined
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• DISCOURSE
  fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
• OFFSCOURING
  That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.
• DISCOURSER
  1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
• DISCOURE
  To discover. That none might her discoure. Spenser.
• DISCOURTESY
  Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.
• SPURGE
  To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. W. Cartright.
• FORINSECAL
  Foreign; alien. Bp. Burnet.
• DISCOURTEOUS
  Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.