purge

Meanings

An act of purging.
An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
To forcibly remove people from.
to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
To trim, dress or prune.

From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō ("I make pure, I cleanse"), from pūrus + agō.

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