An act of purging.
An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
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.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Tending to cut or tear.