An act of purging.

(medicine) 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.

(transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.

(transitive, religion) To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.

(transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

(transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.

(transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.

(transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.

(transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.

(transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.

(transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).

(intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.

(intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

(transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.