to purge
14
7.9
- verb
- /pɜrdʒ/
- Archaic
:
provocar el vómito
- The root is used in medicines for cleansing a woman after birth by helping to purge any remaining blood from her womb.
Of course me knowing my luck and with my skin I purge very badly.
- Of course me knowing my luck and with my skin I purge very badly.
- There are anorexics who will binge and then purge in order to maintain that unhealthily low weight.
- I mean, it got to the point where I was eating multiple meals and then purging them.
- I was sometimes binging and purging, you know, half a dozen or maybe even more times a day.
- He smelled horrific because the body was purging, but he had some crazy stories about, like, moles that were falling off of him.
- Kag is the sound I make when I purge KAG.
Examples
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Of course me knowing my luck and with my skin I purge very badly.
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Purge your blood and clear your liver.
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So I think my skin had the chance to kind of purge while I was away.
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I purge after every job.
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We shall purge those toxins from you.
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I took a couple of deep breaths and held the last one, purging the chlorine from inside my breathing mask.
Fiction book (2001) -
I didn't realize that I was risking my life and weakening my heart every time I purged.
Fiction book (2002) -
The doctor recommended a procedure to purge the toxins from my body.
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Patients often need to purge their systems before certain medical tests.
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After taking the medication, he felt an urge to purge due to its cleansing effects.
Synonyms
296
2.3
To push food and drink out of your stomach through your mouth
186
6.6
To bring food and drink up from your stomach when you feel sick
148
1.0
To force food and drink up from your stomach through your mouth
109
1.7
To bring food or drink up from the stomach through the mouth
81
4.3
Remove waste or harmful substances from the body
51
4.5
Force unwanted people or things out of a place, often using water
38
7.7
To force food or liquid out of the stomach through the mouth
33
3.0
Remove dirt and germs from a person's body by washing
30
4.6
To remove dirt and bad chemicals from water or air to make them clean
9
9.3
To throw up what is in the stomach
9
7.0
To remove harmful substances from a place or thing to make it safe
9
5.7
To forcefully throw up food and drink from your stomach
7
9.6
To be sick and bring food up from your stomach
5
7.7
To bring food or liquid from the stomach back into the mouth
4
9.3
To throw up when you feel sick
3
8.8
To throw up food and drink from your stomach
3
5.3
To help a person remove alcohol or drugs from their body in a medical setting
3
3.6
Push food or drink from the stomach out through the mouth
2
3.9
To remove harmful things from the body by changing what you eat
1
7.4
To throw up
1
9.9
To force something out of the mouth, like saliva or vomit
To clean a wound or the skin by washing away dirt and germs
To remove harmful things from the body or a computer
Remove harmful substances from the body by drinking more water or sweating
Take harmful substances out of something to make it safe
To bring food from the stomach up through the mouth, often to feed young or when sick
To push food or drink out of the mouth because you are sick
To throw up a lot with great force
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A serious eating problem where people eat large amounts then make themselves throw up or fast to avoid weight gain
How Strong
- Archaic
14
7.9
- NSFW
3
7.4
51
4.5
20
4.1
33
3.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word purge comes from Latin purgare, which means 'to make clean', and it was used for medical cleansing of the body, so to purge can mean to make someone vomit or empty the body to remove poison or illness.