purgeverb [ T ]
uk/pɜːdʒ/us/pɝːdʒ/purge verb [ T ] (REMOVE PEOPLE)
to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them:
Party leaders have undertaken to purge the party of extremists.
Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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purge verb [ T ] (REMOVE EVIL)
to make someone or something free of something evil or harmful:
Roman Catholics go to confession to purge their souls/themselves (from/of sin).
The new state governor has promised to purge the police force of corruption.
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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purgenoun [ C ]
uk/pɜːdʒ/us/pɝːdʒ/the act of getting rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them:
Between 1934 and 1938, Stalin mounted a massive purge of the Communist Party, the government and the armed forces in the Soviet Union.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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