Crossword clues for purged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purge \Purge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purged; p. pr. & vb. n. Purging.] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See Pure, and Agent.]
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. ``Till fire purge all things new.''
--Milton.(Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
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.
When that he hath purged you from sin.
--Chaucer.Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.
--Ps. li. 7. (Law) 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.
Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
--Ps. lxxix. 9.We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: purge)
Usage examples of "purged".
Nevertheless, Erasmus purged the air in the chamber and replaced it with clean filtered air.
Erasmus purged the air in the chamber and replaced it with clean filtered air.
A small but striking percentage of the mail directed to GHQ involved fingering individuals whom the writers believed should be arrested, purged, or even brought to trial as war criminals.
General MacArthur more particularly--to survive and prosper while, all around him, his loyal subjects were denounced, purged, charged with war crimes, even executed.
Several of the distinguished members of the committee that produced this report had been purged from university positions during the war for their avowedly leftist sympathies, and all of them were acutely sensitive to the great ideological as well as technocratic and technological trends of the time.
From this point on, the former supreme commander began to be purged from memory, much as wartime atrocities had been purged.
Nor was the officer corps purged of its monarchist, antirepublican frame of mind.
He pulled her out of the hole and started pedalling upwards, his one leg only just pushing them against the weight of the purged oxygen set and the drag of the canvas food-bags at his waist.
Hence worship Me, and for the sake of Him Who is the Most Great Remembrance, offer ye prayers, purged from the insinuations of the people, for verily your Lord, the One true God, is none other than the Sovereign Truth.
With meditation they purged themselves of anger, fear, hatred and sorrow all the doubts and distractions that might keep them from remembrance.
On other planets the biospheres had not been totally destroyed, but rather purged of all life much larger than a bacterium or a worm.
They were perfect in their forms, yes, but more importantly, they had pruned and purged themselves so that only the purest inner qualities remained.
Perhaps I would have been purged into retirement after the Emperor took power, as so many others have been.
Both of them had a pretty good idea where the purged soldiers and officials were.
Iskra had purged when he arrived on Jochi, beings Iskra still swore were imprisoned in Gatchin Fortress.