0 past simple and past participle of purge
1 to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them:
Party leaders have undertaken to purge the party of extremists.
Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.
2 to make someone or something free of something evil or harmful:
On this approach, human responsibility for the construction of race: the relationships, social ordering and history through which race acquires meaning, is purged.
Aspects of shared culture or "borrowed" customs were seen as impurities that had to be purged.
He purged those city-state rulers whose loyalty he could not trust, and in cer tain cases he replaced them with other, loyal nobles.
The new emotion restructured the relationships between physiological and psychological for ms of knowledge, and purged the physiological laboratory of affect.
The realm of the sacred was purged of all transcendental elements and entirely reconfigured in the empirical here and now.
However, this is not an effective way to detect purging because the non-linearity is not strong if only a small proportion of load is purged.
At the same time, however, it results in a great increase in inbreeding level of the purged population, endangering the long-term potential of adaptation.
Furthermore, even lethal mutants and mutants of large effect are only partially purged, not eradicated, from the population.
