Definition of purge

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