Definition for Purging:

• the act of clearing yourself ( or another) from some stigma or charge

Synonyms for Purging:

• adj.

  •purgative (adjective)
  • purificatory,
  • purgatorial.
  •purgatorial (adjective)
  • emetic,
  • aperient,
  • Aperitive,
  • expiatory.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • purging,
  • purge.
  •eating disorder (noun)
  • psychological disorders,
  • Bulimias,
  • bulimarexias,
  • hypheragias,
  • compulsive eatings,
  • eating-disorder,
  • bingeings.
  •purgation (noun)
  • purgation.

• v.

  •cleaning (verb)
  • purifying,
  • washing,
  • ordering,
  • sanitizing,
  • Filtering,
  • Disinfecting,
  • laundering,
  • scrubbing,
  • Wiping,
  • Tidying,
  • Sterilizing,
  • sweeping.
  •purifying (verb)
  • Simplifying,
  • refining.
  •relaxing (verb)
  • laxative.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • bulimarexia,
  • bulimia,
  • cleaning,
  • cleansing,
  • cleanup,
  • clearing,
  • eating disorder,
  • pica,
  • psychological disorder,
  • purification,
  • PICAS,
  • bingeing,
  • compulsive eating,
  • hypheragia,
  • purgings.

Paraphrases for Purging:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    purge.
  • Proper noun, singular
    purge.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    purge.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cleaning.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Purged.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Flushing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    scavenging, reorganizing, withcleansing, Eliminating, Undergoing, Erasing, Disposing, Dispensing, Ridding, Deleting, draining, serving, dropping, vetting, scrubbing, debugging, cleaning.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    debugging.
  • Noun, plural
    flushes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    scrubbing, debugging, venting.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Flushing.

Purging Sentence Examples:

• Have they not an occasion given them to persecute all the godly, and vent their long harboured malice against these who have been most zealous for reformation and purging of the land?

• Some incidental pain and uneasiness, some slightly greenish appearance of the motions, leads the mother to believe that more purging is necessary, when, in fact, both circumstances have probably been induced by the irritation caused by the purgatives already too freely administered.

Hypernym for Purging:

• n.

  • act
    abreaction, katharsis, purgation, catharsis.

Hyponym for Purging:

• n.

  • act
    cleaning, cleansing, cleanup.