as in restored
to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially
a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting
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Recent Examples of purged
Many coup backers are simply demoted or purged from the government without facing trial or execution.
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Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
Guy will not see the Verdun purged of unexploded ordnance in his lifetime.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Recently, some Guard troops have been tasked with picking up trash and spreading mulch, jobs that have been neglected after Musk’s DOGE task force purged a significant portion of the federal workforce.
—Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Having held all of them in contempt, the court stated that that the contempt could be purged by finally turning over all assets and records to the receiver.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Whistleblowers are being purged for trying to protect disaster response.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Those who challenged Mao or tried to repair the damage were purged.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
On the director’s cue, Mary Berry was tenderly extricated from her thermal gilet and the floor was purged of its few dozen researchers, home economists, sound recordists, camera operators, technicians, producers, and researchers.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
Guy will not see the Verdun purged of unexploded ordnance in his lifetime.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Recently, some Guard troops have been tasked with picking up trash and spreading mulch, jobs that have been neglected after Musk’s DOGE task force purged a significant portion of the federal workforce.
—Daniel C. Vock, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Having held all of them in contempt, the court stated that that the contempt could be purged by finally turning over all assets and records to the receiver.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Whistleblowers are being purged for trying to protect disaster response.
—Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Those who challenged Mao or tried to repair the damage were purged.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
On the director’s cue, Mary Berry was tenderly extricated from her thermal gilet and the floor was purged of its few dozen researchers, home economists, sound recordists, camera operators, technicians, producers, and researchers.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purged
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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In the least bad, the researchers assumed the funding cuts lasted just 90 days and would then be fully restored, with countries back to baseline within three months.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Your skin is cleansed with a topical antiseptic, like alcohol or povidone-iodine, to help prevent infections.—
Carley Millhone,
Health,
9 Sep. 2025
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The cells are collected, cleansed, and injected into the patient’s joint, ligament, or tendon.—
Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Less pure sand can be purified by methods such as acid washing or magnetic separation.—
Aki Ishida,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
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This innovation purified the Ohio River water so well that the number of deaths from typhoid fever declined by 60% in 1909.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Slowly, while Erik's brain healed, the uphill battle that was the legal fight was just beginning.—
ForbesTV,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Gospel of John recounts the testimony of a blind man who was healed by Jesus at the pool.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Purged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purged. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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