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Definition: PURGED |
PURGEDImperative & past participle1. Of Purge |
Date "PURGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: PURGED |
| English words defined with "PURGED": purge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PURGED": evolutionary programming ♦ Gottlob Frege ♦ Herba Sacra ♦ Pride's Purge, purged gap ♦ specialised purging system. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Demands Tariff Board be purged of politics / Underwood & Underwood, Inc., Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Mason Brown | I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In addition, heavy drinking or binge drinking can lead to a rebound effect after the alcohol is purged from the body. The consequences of this rebound effect are that blood viscosity (thickness) and platelet levels skyrocket after heavy drinking, increasing the risk for ischemic stroke. (references) | |
Economic History | Cambodia | While communist, the CPK was fiercely anti-Vietnamese, and most of its members who had lived in Vietnam were purged. (references) |
Cambodia | But inside Cambodia, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary asserted their dominance over the Vietnamese-trained communists, many of whom were purged. (references) | |
Lesotho | In February 1990, King Moshoeshoe II was stripped of his executive and legislative powers and exiled by Lekhanya, and the Council of Ministers was purged. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | In their ardent heat we shall, in God's Providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, purified of the errant humors of party and of private interest, and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of national pride and spirit. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | We cannot repeat the mistakes made twice in this century when armistice was followed by recklessness and defense was purged as if the world was permanently safe. |
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| "PURGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 69.07% of the time. "PURGED" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 69.07% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 24.74% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.12% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PURGED": purged gap. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "PURGED": emotion-purged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
purged | 4 |
felons florida from in purged voting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PURGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 清洗 (Cleaned, Purging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | gereinigt (cleaned, scoured). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטו"ר (cleansed, purified). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Spazio di spurgo (purged gap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 깨끗이 하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urgedpay junta purgada (purged gap), folga purgada (purged gap). (various references) espacio intermedio limpio (purged gap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hyato tou stomatoV mou kai eipen idou hyato touto twn ceilewn sou kai afelei taV anomiaV sou kai taV amartiaV sou perikaqariei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et tetigit os meum et dixit ecce tetigit hoc labia tua et auferetur iniquitas tua et peccatum tuum mundabitur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he touchede my mouth, and seide, Lo! I haue touchid with this thi lippes, and ther shal be don awei thi wickydnesse, and thi synne shal be clensid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And after touching my mouth with it, he said, See, your lips have been touched with this; and your evil is taken away, and you are made clean from sin. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 6, Verse 7 |
| Cebuano | Ug uban niini iyang gihikap ang akong baba, ug miingon: Anaa, kini nakatandog sa mong mga ngabil; ug ang imong pagkadautan ginakuha na, ug ang imong sala ginapasaylo. |
| Croatian | dotaèe se njome mojih usta i reèe: "Evo, usne je tvoje dotaklo, krivica ti je skinuta i grijeh oprošten." |
| Danish | det lod han røre min Mund og sagde: "Se, det har rørt dine Læber; din Skyld er borte, din Synd er sonet!" |
| Dutch | En hij roerde mijn mond daarmede aan, en zeide: Zie, deze heeft uw lippen aangeroerd; alzo is uw misdaad van u geweken, en uw zonde is verzoend. |
| Finnish | ja kosketti sillä minun suutani sanoen: "Katso, tämä on koskettanut sinun huuliasi; niin on sinun velkasi poistettu ja syntisi sovitettu". |
| French | Il en toucha ma bouche, et dit: Ceci a touché tes lèvres; ton iniquité est enlevée, et ton péché est expié. |
| German | und rührte meinen Mund an und sprach: Siehe, hiermit sind deine Lippen gerührt, daß deine Missetat von dir genommen werde und deine Sünde versöhnt sei. |
| Hungarian | És illeté számat azzal, és mondá: Ímé ez illeté ajkaidat, és hamisságod eltávozott, és bûnöd elfedeztetett. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Disentuhnya bibir saya dengan bara itu dan berkata, "Bara ini telah menyentuh bibirmu. Sekarang kesalahanmu sudah dihapus dan dosamu sudah diampuni TUHAN." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka itu dikenakannyalah kepada mulutku, sambil katanya: Bahwasanya serta terkenalah ini kepada bibirmu, maka undurlah kesalahanmu dari padamu dan dosamupun sudah diampuni. |
| Maori | Whakapangia mai ana e ia ki toku mangai, me tana ki mai, Nana, kua pa tenei ki ou ngutu; na kua riro tou he, kua murua tou hara. |
| Norwegian | Og han rørte ved min munn med den og sa: Se, denne har rørt ved dine leber, din misgjerning er tatt bort, og din synd er sonet. |
| Portuguese | e com a brasa tocou-me a boca, e disse: Eis que isto tocou os teus lábios; e a tua iniqüidade foi tirada, e perdoado o teu pecado. |
| Rumanian | Mi -a atins gura cu el, wi a zis: ,,Iatq, atingkndu-se cqrbunele acesta de buzele tale, nelegiuirea ta este kndepqrtatq wi pqcatul tqu este ispqwit!`` |
| Russian | Й ЛПУОХМУС ХУФ НПЙИ Й УЛБЪБМ: ЧПФ, ЬФП ЛПУОХМПУШ ХУФ ФЧПЙИ, Й 'ЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕ ФЧПЕ Х"БМЕОП ПФ ФЕ'С, Й ЗТЕИ ФЧПК ПЮЙЭЕО. |
| Swedish | Och han rörde därmed vid min mun. Därefter sade han: "Se, då nu detta har rört vid dina läppar, har din missgärning blivit tagen ifrån dig, och din synd är försonad." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "PURGED": unpurged. (additional references) | |
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"PURGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lurged, parge, parged, perge, phugoid, pirge, plurge, Podged, pogoed, ppurge, Pruger, puggled, pugree, purgo, pyrgoi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PURGED" (pronounced per"jd) |
| 3 | -er" j d | converged, diverged, emerged, merged, reemerged, splurged, submerged, surged, urged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: drupe, duper, perdu, prude, purge, urged. | |
-2 letters: dreg, drug, dupe, dure, grue, gude, pure, rude, rued, urge. | |
-3 letters: due, dug, dup, erg, ged, ped, peg, per, pud, pug, pur, red, reg, rep, rue, rug, urd. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, er, pe, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: grouped, grumped, pudgier, upgrade. | |
+2 letters: prejudge, repugned, splurged, unpurged, upgirded, upgraded, upgrades, upsurged. | |
+3 letters: gunpowder, perduring, prejudged, prejudger, prejudges, preluding, prologued, promulged, prorogued, regrouped, replunged, supergood, ungrouped, uprighted. | |
+4 letters: depurating, expurgated, gunpowders, pedicuring, persuading, plundering, precluding, prefigured, prejudgers, prejudging, spurgalled, upgathered, upgradable. | |
+5 letters: autographed, prejudgment, prejudicing, prologuized, promulgated, reproducing, repudiating, superadding, superceding, superseding, underpaying, upgradeable. | |
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