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UK
/pˈɜːdʒɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpɝdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɝdʒɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
ADJECTIVE
-
serving to purge or rid of sin
purgatorial rites
How To Use purging In A Sentence
- Although some people with anorexia have bingeing and purging habits, the two conditions are distinct.
- Opposition leaders accused the government of orchestrating the 2003 coup as a pretext for purging the military and cracking down on political opponents.
- These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche. NYT > Home Page
- Since you have been bingeing and purging for so long, you may have developed medical problems you aren't aware of.
- That purging of emotions that drama, especially tragedy, is supposed to inspire.
- Malan identified what he calls the purging of whites from the ranks of civil service as the root cause of the decay. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Some anorexics combine fasting with occasional binges, followed by self-induced purging or vomiting.
- The regime is so paranoid that it is even purging the military.
- He started a popular purging of the members of the previous government and announced a return to civilian rule.
- He was largely responsible for the purging of the Moscow region and in 1938 and was transferred to the Ukraine to scourge the party there.
