Purging Synonyms and Antonyms

To discharge (wastes or foreign substances) from the body
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. excreting
  2. evacuating
  3. eliminating
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. liquidating
  2. removing
  3. exterminating
  4. regurgitating
  5. unloading
  6. ridding
  7. honking
  8. purifying
  9. chucking
  10. ousting
  11. spewing
  12. puking
  13. exonerating
  14. eliminating
  15. exculpating
  16. retching
  17. eradicating
  18. erasing
  19. disgorging
  20. clearing
  21. casting
  22. cleansing
  23. vomiting
  24. absolving
Antonyms:
  1. rehabilitating
Make pure or free from sin or guilt
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. purifying
  2. clarifying
  3. scouring
  4. sanctifying
  5. flushing
  6. clearing
  7. cleansing
Antonyms:
  1. maintaining
  2. holding
  3. keeping
To free from a charge or imputation of guilt
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. acquitting
  2. vindicating
  3. exonerating
  4. exculpating
  5. clearing
  6. absolving
An act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. purge
  2. purgation
Serving to purge or rid of sin
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. purgatorial
  2. purifying

Words Related to Purging

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Purging Sentence Examples

  • Given by the mouth glycerin produces purging if large doses are administered, and has the same action if only a small quantity be introduced into the rectum.

  • There are various systems of purging refined, or socalled refined, sugar in centrifugals, all designed with a view of obtaining the sugar in lumps or tablets, so as to appear as if it had been turned out from moulds and not from centrifugals, and great ingenuity and large sums of money have been spent in perfecting these different systems, with more or less happy results.

  • Aloes can be absorbed from a broken surface and will then cause purging.

  • A friend may tell you that binging on food and then purging is a great way to lose some pounds.

  • Several members of the order are used medicinally for the strong purging properties of the milky juice (latex) which they contain; scammony is the dried latex from the underground stem of Convolvulus Scarnmonia, a native of the Levant, while jalap is the product of the tubercles of Exogonium Purga, a native of Mexico.

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