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Synonyms for purge

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for purge

to free from sin, guilt, or defilement

to free from a charge or imputation of guilt

to get rid of, especially by banishment or execution

to discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the body

the act or process of eliminating

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Synonyms for purge

the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

an act of removing by cleansing

an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place

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oust politically

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clear of a charge

make pure or free from sin or guilt

rid of impurities

rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid

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excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)

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160-64, que dans le cadre de l'operation de << passeportisation >> visant a purger les villes des elements indesirables, le pouvoir sovietique proceda a l'arrestation et la deportation de 5 470 Tsiganes (femmes et enfants compris) sans domicile fixe de Moscou pour les colonies de travail (trudposelki) implantees en Siberie occidentale.
(18) "La strategie du RAID: purger la dimension d'hyperviolence du suspect," FranceTV.fr, March 21, 2012.
Ingold ne convaincra probablement pas les latouriens sur le plan philosophique avec son divertissant dialogue << When ANT meets SPIDER >> (Chapitre 7) ou ANT signifie bien entendu Actor-Network Theory et SPIDER << Skilled Perception Involves Developmentally Embodied Responsiveness >>, mais son insistance sur la complexite des formes de vie permettra peut-etre de purger certains des automatismes langagiers propres aux praticiens de la theorie de l'acteur-reseau qui conduisent souvent, comme Latour le remarque lui-meme, a formater paradoxalement toutes les travaux selon le meme moule conceptuel.
Also, seed dispersal in time has been proposed when delays in the flowering or fruiting phenologies occur, thus seeds are dispersed later and they either escape predation or suffer unusual high mortality (Augs purger 1981, Curran & Webb 2000, Chuine 2010).
En 1985, cinq hauts grades militaires furent reconnus coupables de graves violations des droits humains et condamnes a purger des peines de prison.
These include floating head pressure control, heat recovery off the high stage compressor discharge for water heating, hot gas defrosting, optimised compressor sequencing control and an automatic air purger.
Pour ce qui est de la piece Requiem, je l'ai ecrite malgremoi, en bonne partie en reponse a l'article de Pierre Karch, et pour me purger du personnage du pere absent dans French Town.
Just as marvelous would be the Rimbaldian poetic inversion of factories into cathedrals, and the analogy constructed between his own 'impersonalized' voice and that of the forgotten alienated lives of factory workers "qui n'ont meme pas fini la-dessous de purger quelle peine" (203).
They are Fat Burner, Fat Purger, Fat & Carb Blocker, Appetite Suppressant and Carb Suppressor.
(43) Aubin vient en effet de purger 53 jours de prison pour avoir publie un poeme de Joseph-Guillaume Barthe qui rend hommage aux prisonniers politiques exiles aux Bermudes.
See William Hamilton, "Gun Control Stance Makes California Legislator "Purger of Recall" Washington Post (April to, 1994).