Synonyms of the word

purge

• n. An act of purging.
• n. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
• n. A cleansing of pipes.
• n. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
• n. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
• v. (transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
• v. (transitive, religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
• v. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
• v. (transitive, medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
• v. (transitive, medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
• v. (transitive, law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
• v. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
• v. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
• v. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

acquit

• v. To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
• v. (followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability,…
• v. (obsolete, rare) To pay for; to atone for.
• v. To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite, to fulfill.
• v. (reflexive) To clear oneself.
• v. (reflexive) To bear or conduct oneself; to perform one’s part.
• v. (obsolete) To release, set free, rescue.
• v. (archaic) past participle of acquit.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

assoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To absolve, acquit; to release from blame or sin.
• v. (archaic) To set free, release.
• v. To solve; to clear up.
• v. To expiate; to atone for.
• v. To remove; to put off.

barf

• n. (US, colloquial) vomit.
• v. (US, colloquial) To vomit.
• v. (computing, slang, intransitive) Of a system: to fail.
• interj. An expression of disgust.

cast

• v. (heading, physical) To move, or be moved, away.
• v. To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
• v. (dated) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
• v. (heading, social) To predict, to decide, to plan.
• v. To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
• v. To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
• v. (archaic) To give birth to (a child) prematurely; to miscarry.
• v. To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
• v. To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
• v. (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by…
• v. To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
• v. (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
• v. (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
• v. (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
• v. (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
• n. An act of throwing.
• n. Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
• n. A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
• n. The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
• n. The casting procedure.
• n. An object made in a mould.
• n. A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
• n. The mould used to make cast objects.
• n. (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
• n. A squint.
• n. Visual appearance.
• n. The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
• n. An animal, especially a horse, that is unable to rise without assistance.
• n. Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
• n. A group of crabs.

cat

• n. An animal of the family Felidae.
• n. A person.
• n. (nautical) A strong tackle used to hoist an anchor to the cathead of a ship.
• n. (chiefly nautical) Short form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. (slang) Any of a variety of earth-moving machines. (from their manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.).
• n. (archaic) A sturdy merchant sailing vessel (now only in "catboat").
• n. (archaic, uncountable) The game of "trap and ball" (also called "cat and dog").
• n. (slang, vulgar, African American Vernacular) A vagina, a vulva; the female external genitalia.
• n. A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.) with six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever…
• v. (nautical, transitive) To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
• v. (nautical, transitive) To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• v. (slang) To vomit something.
• n. A catamaran.
• n. (computing) A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the…
• v. (computing, transitive) To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
• v. (computing, slang) To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of…
• adj. (Ireland, informal) terrible, disastrous.
• n. (slang) A street name of the drug methcathinone.
• n. (military, naval) A catapult.
• n. Abbreviation of category.
• n. A catfish.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

chuck

• n. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
• n. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding…
• n. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
• n. A clucking sound.
• n. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
• n. A gentle touch or tap.
• n. (informal) A casual throw.
• n. (slang) An act of vomiting.
• n. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
• v. To make a clucking sound.
• v. To call, as a hen her chickens.
• v. To touch or tap gently.
• v. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
• v. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
• v. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
• v. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
• v. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving…
• n. Abbreviation of woodchuck.
• n. (Scotland) A small pebble.

cleaning

• v. present participle of clean.
• n. (gerund of clean) A situation in which something is cleaned.
• n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

cleansing

• adj. That cleanses.
• n. The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
• v. present participle of cleanse.

cleanup

• n. The act of cleaning or tidying something.
• adv. (baseball) Fourth in the batting order.

clear

• adj. Transparent in colour.
• adj. Bright, not dark or obscured.
• adj. Free of obstacles.
• adj. Without clouds.
• adj. (meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
• adj. Free of ambiguity or doubt.
• adj. Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
• adj. (figuratively) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
• adj. (of a soup) Without a thickening ingredient.
• adj. Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
• adj. (Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).
• adj. Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
• adj. Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
• adj. Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
• adj. Unmixed; entirely pure.
• adj. Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
• adj. Without diminution; in full; net.
• adv. All the way; entirely.
• adv. Not near something or touching it.
• adv. free (or separate) from others.
• adv. (obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
• v. (transitive) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
• v. (ergative) To become freed from obstructions.
• v. (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
• v. (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
• v. (transitive) To pass without interference; to miss.
• v. (intransitive) To become clear.
• v. (intransitive) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that…
• v. (transitive, business) To earn a profit of; to net.
• v. (transitive) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
• v. To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
• v. To obtain a clearance.
• v. (sports) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending…
• v. To fell all trees of a forest.
• v. (transitive, computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
• v. (computing, transitive) To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at…
• n. (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest…
• n. (cryptology) State of being unenciphered. (In the clear: Not enciphered.).

clearing

• v. present participle of clear.
• n. The act or process of making or becoming clear.
• n. An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
• n. An open space in the fog etc.
• n. (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central…
• n. (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
• n. (Britain) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
• n. (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

discharge

• v. To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
• v. To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
• v. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
• v. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
• v. To expel or let go.
• v. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
• v. (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
• v. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
• v. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
• v. To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
• v. To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the…
• v. To unload a ship or another means of transport.
• v. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or…
• v. To give forth; to emit or send out.
• v. To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
• v. (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
• v. (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
• n. (medicine, uncountable) pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection…
• n. the act of accomplishing (an obligation); performance.
• n. the act of expelling or letting go.
• n. (electricity) the act of releasing an accumulated charge.
• n. (medicine) the act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
• n. (military) the act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
• n. (hydrology) the volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of…

disgorge

• v. To vomit or spew, to discharge.
• v. To surrender (stolen goods or money, for example) unwillingly.
• v. (oenology) To remove traces of yeast from sparkling wine by the méthode champenoise.

distill

• v. (transitive) To subject a substance to distillation.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo or be produced by distillation.
• v. (transitive) To make by means of distillation, especially whisky.
• v. (transitive) To exude in small drops.
• v. (transitive) To impart in small quantities.
• v. (transitive) To extract the essence of; concentrate; purify.
• v. (intransitive) To trickle down or fall in small drops; ooze out.
• v. (intransitive) To be manifested gently or gradually.
• v. (intransitive) To drip or be wet with.

egest

• v. To excrete from the body.

eliminate

• v. (transitive) To completely destroy (something) so that it no longer exists.
• v. (slang) To kill (a person or animal).
• v. (physiology) To excrete (waste products).
• v. To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
• v. (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

excrete

• v. (of an organism) to discharge from the system.

exculpate

• v. To clear of or to free from guilt; exonerate.

exonerate

• v. (transitive, now rare) To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water: to discharge or empty (itself).
• v. (transitive) To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
• v. (transitive) To free from accusation or blame.
• adj. (archaic) Freed from an obligation; freed from accusation or blame; acquitted, exonerated.

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

honk

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sound like a car horn.
• v. (intransitive) To make the sound of a goose.
• v. (informal) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
• v. (informal) To have a bad smell.
• n. The sound produced by a typical car horn.
• n. The cry of a goose.
• n. (informal) A bad smell.
• n. Money (slang).
• interj. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.
• n. Clipping of honky.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

oppress

• v. (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
• v. (transitive) To keep down by force.
• v. (transitive) To make sad or gloomy.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

persecute

• v. To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially,…
• v. To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.

puke

• n. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
• v. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
• v. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure,…
• adj. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
• adj. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

purgation

• n. The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
• n. The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.

purging

• v. present participle of purge.
• n. The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly.
• n. The removal of waste from the human body, particularly.
• n. (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
• n. (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
• n. (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.

purify

• v. (transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.
• v. (transitive) To free from guilt or sin.

regorge

• v. To disgorge or vomit.
• v. To swallow again; to swallow back.

regurgitate

• v. (transitive) To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
• v. (transitive) To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as a bird or animal does.
• v. (transitive, by extension) To repeat verbatim.
• v. (intransitive) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.

retch

• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To reck.
• v. To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
• n. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

rinse

• v. (transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
• v. (transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
• v. (Britain, slang) To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
• n. The action of rinsing.
• n. A liquid used to rinse, (now) particularly a hair dye.

sanctify

• v. (transitive) To make holy; to consecrate. Set aside for sacred or ceremonial use.
• v. (transitive) To free from sin; to purify.
• v. (transitive) To make acceptable or useful under religious law or practice.
• v. (transitive) To endorse with religious sanction.

scour

• v. To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously.
• v. To remove dirt and debris by purging; to sweep along or off (by a current of water).
• v. To search an area thoroughly.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) (Of livestock,) to suffer from diarrhea or dysentery.
• v. (transitive, veterinary medicine) To purge.
• v. (obsolete) To cleanse.
• n. The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
• n. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To run with speed; scurry; move swiftly over; to brush along.

sick

• adj. Having an urge to vomit.
• adj. (chiefly US) In poor health.
• adj. (colloquial) Mentally unstable, disturbed.
• adj. (colloquial) In bad taste.
• adj. Tired of or annoyed by something.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent, awesome, badass.
• adj. In poor condition.
• adj. (agriculture) Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
• n. Sick people in general as a group.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) vomit.
• v. To vomit.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To fall sick; to sicken.
• v. (rare) Alternative spelling of sic.

spew

• v. to eject forcibly and in a stream.
• v. (informal) to vomit.
• v. (slang) to ejaculate.
• v. (slang) to laugh unexpectedly while drinking, causing drink to exit the nose.
• v. To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
• n. (slang) vomit or sick.
• n. (slang) ejaculate.

spue

• v. Obsolete form of spew.

sublimate

• v. (transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the…
• v. To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
• v. (transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially…
• v. (archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
• n. (chemistry) A product obtained by sublimation.

treat

• v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
• v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
• v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
• v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
• v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
• v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
• v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
• v. To provide something special and pleasant.
• n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
• n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
• n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
• n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

upchuck

• n. (informal) Vomit.
• v. (informal) To vomit.

vomit

• v. To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke.
• v. To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
• n. The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
• n. The act of regurgitating.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.