Crossword-Solution: PURGE 5 letters, 119 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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

We have 119 clues for the answer “PURGE”

Clue Answers
Clean completely 1 answer
Clean out a closet, say 1 answer
Cleanse of impurities 1 answer
Cleanse of unwanted elements 1 answer
Cleanse totally 1 answer
Cleanse, as of impurities 1 answer
Cleanse, politically 1 answer
Clear of impurities 1 answer
Clear oneself of guilt. 1 answer
Clear, as computer memory 1 answer
Completely cleanse 1 answer
Dictator's action 1 answer
Dictator's action against dissidents 1 answer
Dystopian horror film of 2013, with "The" 1 answer
Eliminate, as undesirables 1 answer
Free from a charge, in law. 1 answer
Free of guilt 1 answer
Get rid of, Soviet-style 1 answer
Get rid of, Stalin style 1 answer
Housecleaning of a sort 1 answer
Large-scale dismissal 1 answer
Large-scale expulsion 1 answer
Large-scale ouster 1 answer
Large-scale shake-up 1 answer
Oust, Soviet-style 1 answer
Political clean-up 1 answer
Political house-cleaning 1 answer
Political housecleaning, e.g. 1 answer
Political ouster 1 answer
Political shake-up 1 answer
Prove cathartic 1 answer
Purify; oust 1 answer
Remove by cleansing 1 answer
Remove from office, soviet-style 1 answer
Remove undesirable elements from 1 answer
Remove, Soviet-style 1 answer
Remove, Stalin-style 1 answer
Stalinesque sweep 1 answer
Undergo catharsis 1 answer
Wipe out, politically 1 answer
cause evacuation from 1 answer
remove totally and violently 1 answer
rid (a thing or place) of (unwanted things or people) 1 answer
Clear of a charge 2 answers
Clear of charges 2 answers
Cleanse thoroughly 2 answers
Military coup 2 answers
lustrate 2 answers
Clear of guilt 3 answers
Completely remove 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with PURGE (5)

All thy request for Man, accepted Son, Obtain, all thy request was my Decree: But longer in that Paradise to dwell, The Law I gave to Nature him forbids: Those pure immortal Elements that know No gross, no unharmoneous mixture foule, Eject him tainted now, and purge him off As a distemper, gross to aire as gross, And mortal food, as may dispose him best For dissolution wrought by Sin, that first Distemperd all things, and of incorrupt Corrupted.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Here, she said to herself had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punishment; and so, perchance, the torture of her daily shame would at length purge her soul, and work out another purity than that which she had lost: more saint-like, because the result of martyrdom.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
But, in after days, when the frenzy of that hideous epoch had subsided, it was remembered how loudly Colonel Pyncheon had joined in the general cry, to purge the land from witchcraft; nor did it fail to be whispered, that there was an invidious acrimony in the zeal with which he had sought the condemnation of Matthew Maule.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Through paths unknown Thy soul hath flown, To seek the realms of woe, Where fiery pain Shall purge the stain Of actions done below.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Three seconds after reading the letter of the honourable Secretary of Marine, I felt that my true vocation, the sole end of my life, was to chase this disturbing monster, and purge it from the world.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Quotes with PURGE (3)

And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.
Colleen Houck
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul. Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise.
Alice Walker
It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may be called. For reason is the faculty which supplies the *principles* of *a priori* knowledge. Pure reason therefore is that which contains the principles of knowing something entirely *a priori*. An *organon* of pure reason would be the sum total of the principles by which all pure *a priori* knowledge can be acquired and actually established. Exhaustive application of such…
Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason
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Used 78 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).