purges

Noun

purge (plural purges)

1. An act or instance of purging.
2. An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
3. Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
   • he prescribes a Purge or a Vomit1722, John Arbuthnot, Mr. Maitland’s account of inoculating the small-pox
4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
   • Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were irreversible.
5. An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
6. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".

   Synonyms:

   weep

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