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To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying
off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. |
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To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine,
or in a similar manner. |
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To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. |
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To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam
pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. |
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To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial
defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime. |
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To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or
misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. |
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To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; --
often followed by away. |
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To become pure, as by clarification. |
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To have or produce frequent evacuations from the
intestines, as by means of a cathartic. |
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The act of purging. |
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That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates
the intestines; a cathartic. |
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