holding vs purge

holding

noun
  • Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. 

  • A determination of law made by a court. 

  • A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)). 

  • A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. 

purge

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

  • 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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