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purge

n. an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; "he died in a purge by Stalin"

purge, purging, purgation

n. the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

purge

v. oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

purge

v. clear of a charge

purge

v. rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

purge

v. excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

flush, scour, purge

v. rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up

v. 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"

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censor

v. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

denazify

v. free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance; "Germany was denazified after WW II"; "The highest judges were never denazified"

absolve, justify, free

v. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"

excise

v. remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"

shorten

v. make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"

decimate

v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

wash

v. apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to

wash

v. form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

scavenge

v. clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street"

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rehabilitate

v. reinstall politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime"

dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

keep down

v. manage not to throw up

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