Word Meaning

Meaning of "purges" and the crossword clue

- Clean out
- Clean thoroughly
- Cleanse
- Cleanse thoroughly
- Eliminate
- purification
- Purify
- Quiet desire to eliminate
- Remove
- Remove completely
- Wipe out
- Purifies
- To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
- To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
- To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
- To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
- To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
- To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
- To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
- To become pure, as by clarification.
- To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- The act of purging.
- That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.