Clues for the word "PURGE"
We've had 56 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 89 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 30, 2025.
Definition of purge
- v. t. - To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
- v. t. - To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner.
- v. t. - To clarify; to defecate, as liquors.
- v. t. - To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape.
- v. t. - To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime.
- v. t. - To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal.
- v. t. - To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
- v. i. - To become pure, as by clarification.
- v. i. - To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
- v. t. - The act of purging.
- v. t. - That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
Referring Clues
- Remove, Soviet-style
- Cleanse totally
- Clear
- Eliminate, as undesirables
- Stalinesque sweep
- Remove undesirable elements from
- Clean completely
- Cleanse, as of impurities
- Clear of a charge
- Political housecleaning, e.g.
- Clear of impurities
- Get rid of
- Political housecleaning
- Clean out
- Large-scale dismissal
- Clear, as computer memory
- Undergo catharsis
- Cleanse
- Wipe out, politically
- Rid (of)
- Rid of impurities
- Clean out a closet, say
- Political ouster
- Empty
- Rid
- Remove completely
- Political house-cleaning
- Witch-hunt
- Political shake-up
- Get rid of, Soviet-style
- Completely clean out
- Remove press, under pressure
- Government interrupts total extermination
- Remove impurities from
- Quietly fancy a witch-hunt
- Expulsion
- Remove undesirable elements
- Get rid of unwanted elements
- Elimination of "undesirables"
- Weed out
- Cleanse of unwanted elements
- Purify, clear out
- Cleanse, purify
- Papa's strong desire to kill
- Quietly press for pogrom
- Quietly press for expulsion
- Completely cleanse
- Oust, Soviet-style
- Remove, Stalin-style
- Root out
- Free
- Large-scale ouster
- Remove
- Completely remove
- When all crime is legal for 12 hours
- Dystopian horror film of 2013, with "The"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 30, 2025
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2024
- New York Times - October 16, 2024
- LA Times - April 26, 2024
- USA Today - November 05, 2023
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2023
- LA Times - October 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 07, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2022
- Mirror Mini - October 25, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - August 23, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 22, 2022
- New York Times - July 10, 2022
- Mirror Classic - February 01, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 12, 2017
- USA Today - August 18, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 29, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - June 08, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 31, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - February 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - January 13, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 14, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - September 16, 2016
- Guardian Quiptic - September 12, 2016
- USA Today - April 29, 2016
- Netword - April 11, 2016
- Evening Standard Quick - March 14, 2016
- And in 59 more crossword puzzles...