different between purge vs gurge

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

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Noun

purge f (plural purges)

1. (Jersey) purgative

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

See gorge.

Verb

gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)

1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

Etymology 2

From Latin gurges.

Noun

gurge (plural gurges)

1. (obsolete) A whirlpool.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42,^[1]

     The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge

     Boils out from under ground […]

Anagrams

• Ugger, ugger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gurges.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ur.d??e/
• Hyphenation: gùr?ge

Noun

gurge f (plural gurgi)

1. (poetic) whirlpool, vortex

   Synonyms: gorgo, (poetic) gurgite

Related terms

• gorgo
• gurgite
• ingurgitare

References

• gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana