0 past simple and past participle of purge --
1 to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them: --
Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.
Party leaders have undertaken to purge the party of extremists.
2 to make someone or something free of something evil or harmful: --
Those who had failed to live up to their promises to the government would be purged from the list of promoted companies.
A total of 606 farm dogs and 1463 village dogs successfully purged.
Whole academic fields/ disciplines were purged from the old 'class-alien' intellectuals and replaced by new, young, inexperienced and uneducated but loyal party-soldiers.
But much of the material purged also relates to issues concerning the nature of the visible church and ministry, sacraments, ceremonies, and preaching.
Everything can be cured and all evils can be purged.
Mutants of different effects are not proportionally purged from the population with inbreeding.
In such species, intentional inbreeding would be inefficient because any variation that can easily be purged will already have been removed.
Furthermore, even lethal mutants and mutants of large effect are only partially purged, not eradicated, from the population.
