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She thinks fasting once a month helps purge her body of impurities.purge = rid
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Unlike most of his colleagues, he survived the purge of intellectuals during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.purge = elimination (removal)
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The extremists in the party want to purge the leadership of moderates.purge = rid
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Paul urged the church to purge sin and pursue sincerity and truth.purge = get rid of
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With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands. (source)purged = eliminated (got rid of)
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I must purge my soul of today's sins. (source)purge = get rid of
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He wanted to beat something, to cry, to scream, but all he could do was listen to Angel as she threw up the way she used to, the only way she knew to purge the tension of Jordan's presence in the house. (source)purge = get rid of (things thought undesirable)
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The next morning Dad purged our fridge of milk, yogurt and cheese, and that evening when he came home, his truck was loaded with fifty gallons of honey.† (source)purged = eliminated (got rid of)
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He was purging Lord Arryn with wasting potions and pepper juice, and I feared he might kill him.† (source)purging = getting rid of
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In barracks across the country, purges had begun of all those remaining loyal to the Constitution.† (source)purges = eliminates (gets rid of)
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For, let alone the god's express command, It were a scandal ye should leave unpurged The murder of a great man and your king, Nor track it home.† (source)unpurged = not ridded of somethingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpurged means not and reverses the meaning of purged. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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His followers refer to him also as the Scourge of the All-Powerful, the Right Fist of the Invincible, the Purger of Iniquities, and the Defender of Virtue and Justice.† (source)
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15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.† (source)purgeth = eliminates (gets rid of)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She purgeth" in older English, today we say "She purges."
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Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers. (source)purgers = people who get rid of things thought undesirable
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In order to purge himself, he'd decided to talk to Claude.† (source)purge = get rid of
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The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.† (source)purged = eliminated (got rid of)
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