bolter vs purge

bolter

verb
  • To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance. 

  • To pound rapidly. 

  • To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter. 

  • To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook. 

  • To swim or turn sideways while eating. 

  • To fish using a bolter. 

noun
  • A horse that wins at long odds. 

  • A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour. 

  • A person who sifts flour or meal. 

  • A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee. 

  • A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual. 

  • In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success. 

  • A kind of fishing line; a boulter. 

  • A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing. 

  • A filter mechanism. 

  • An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory. 

  • A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly. 

purge

verb
  • To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner. 

  • To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds. 

  • To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit. 

  • To forcibly remove people from. 

  • To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic. 

  • To trim, dress, or prune. 

  • To remove by cleansing; to wash away. 

  • To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor). 

  • To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. 

  • To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity. 

  • To become pure, as by clarification. 

  • To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation. 

noun
  • An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting. 

  • That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. 

  • A cleansing of pipes. 

  • An act of purging. 

  • A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity. 

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