0 to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them: --
The names of thousands of minority voters were purged from the electoral rolls in the run-up to the election.
Because they have not been purging the list of old names and addresses, there may be thousands of duplicate names.
Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.
Party leaders have undertaken to purge the party of extremists.
2 to get rid of food from your body, for example in order to stop yourself gaining weight, either by making yourself vomit or by using laxatives (= substances that make it easier for waste from the bowels to come out): --
3 the act of getting rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them: --
4 to rid a group or organization of unwanted people: --
They purged the senior ranks of the department by offering them generous retirement packages.
5 to remove something bad or wrong: --
The system is designed to purge impurities from the city’s drinking water.
With increasing independence among loci with deleterious mutants, purging becomes slightly more effective.
Mutants of different effects are not proportionally purged from the population with inbreeding.
Above all, he welcomed the halt to the purges.
Therefore, alternative full-sib mating and line crossing is the best mating strategy for purging under any selection scheme.
If the population could be morally purified, how could race be purged from culture to become biology alone ?
By cleansing the world around them, purging it from evil and dirtiness, humans hoped to qualify themselves for eternal life.
We can call this (again appropriating a term from political philosophy, again purging it of all negative connotations) the anarchist position.
High inbreeding depression, selective interference among loci, and the threshold selfing rate for purging recessive lethal mutations.
