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Adjective purging has 1 sense
  1. purgatorial, purging, purifying - serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
,Noun purging has 2 senses
  1. purge, purging - an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
    --1 is a kind of cleaning, cleansing, cleanup
    --1 has particulars:
     catharsis, katharsis, abreaction; catharsis, katharsis, purgation; colonic, colonic irrigation, high colonic
    Derived form: verb purge4
  2. purge, purging, purgation - the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
    --2 is a kind of clearing
    --2 has particulars: purification
    Derived form: verb purge4
,Verb purge has 7 senses
  1. purge - oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
    --1 is one way to     persecute, oppress
    Antonyms: rehabilitate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. purge - clear of a charge
    --2 is one way to     acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate
    Derived forms: noun purge1, noun purgation3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. purify, purge, sanctify - make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
    --3 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun purge1, noun purgation2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. purge - rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
    --4 is one way to     purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
    Derived forms: noun purge2, noun purging2, noun purging1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. flush, scour, purge - rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
    --5 is one way to rinse, rinse off
    Derived form: noun purge2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
  6. vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up - eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"
    --6 is one way to excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  7. purge - excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
    --7 is one way to     treat, care for
    Derived form: noun purgation1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s somebody
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