different between exonerate vs purge

English

Etymology

From Latin exoner?t-, the participle stem of exoner?re, from exoner? (“to discharge, unload; to exonerate”), from ex- (prefix denoting privation) + oner? (“to burden, lade; to load”) (from onus (“burden, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énh?os (“burden, load”), from *h?enh?- (“to charge, onerate”)). The English word is cognate with French exonérer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?n??e?t/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?n???e?t/, /??-/
• Hyphenation: ex?o?ner?ate

Verb

exonerate (third-person singular simple present exonerates, present participle exonerating, simple past and past participle exonerated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
2. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
3. (transitive) To free (someone) from an obligation, responsibility or task.
4. (transitive) To free (someone) from accusation or blame.

   Synonyms: acquit, exculpate; see also Thesaurus:acquit

Derived terms

• exonerated (adjective)
• exoneration
• exonerative
• exonerator

Translations

Adjective

exonerate

1. (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.

Latin

Verb

exoner?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exoner?

English

Etymology

From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin p?rg? (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from p?rus (“clean, pure”) + ag? (“I make, I do”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p?d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Noun

purge (plural purges)

1. An act of purging.
2. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
3. A cleansing of pipes.
4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.

   Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.

5. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Arbuthnot to this entry?)

Derived terms

• Great Purge

Related terms

Translations

Verb

purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)

1. (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
2. (transitive, religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
3. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.

   • Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

   • We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.

4. (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
5. (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
   • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:

     "What did they die of?" I asked.
     "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died."
     "He bled and purged babies?"
     "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."

6. (transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.

7. (transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.

8. (transitive, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
9. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
10. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
11. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
12. (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.

Translations

Anagrams

• Grupe, repug

French

Verb

purge

1. first-person singular present indicative of purger
2. third-person singular present indicative of purger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of purger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of purger
5. second-person singular imperative of purger

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

purge f (plural purges)

1. (Jersey) purgative