purging
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of purge#English|purge
purging (plural purgings)
- The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
- The removal of waste from the human body, particularly:
- (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomitting, etc.
- (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
- (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
- 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:
- (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
- (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation#English|purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.
- (removal of undesirables) purge; see also witchhunt
- (defecation) See Thesaurus:defecation
- (vomiting) See vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate
- (thing purged) See blood, sin, Thesaurus:vomit, and Thesaurus:feces
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