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purging
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)d???
Verb
purging
- present participle of purge
Noun
purging (plural purgings)
- The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
- (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
- (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
- The removal of waste from the human body, particularly:
- (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomitting, etc.
- (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
- (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
- (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
Synonyms
- (removal of undesirables): purge; see also witchhunt
- (defecation): See Thesaurus:defecation
- (vomiting): See vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate
- (thing purged): See blood, sin, Thesaurus:vomit, and Thesaurus:feces
Translations
References
- "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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pursing
English
Verb
pursing
- present participle of purse
Noun
pursing (plural pursings)
- An expression or motion that purses.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
Anagrams
- Spurgin, pig runs, pig-runs, rings up, spruing
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