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Is purge a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word purge is a Scrabble US word. The word purge is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is purge a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word purge is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is purge a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word purge is a Words With Friends word. The word purge is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

PURGE,

4-letter words (4 found)

GRUE,PUER,PURE,URGE,

3-letter words (16 found)

ERG,GER,GUE,GUP,GUR,PEG,PER,PRE,PUG,PUR,REG,REP,RUE,RUG,URE,URP,

2-letter words (7 found)

ER,GU,PE,RE,UG,UP,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 29 words from purge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of purge

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Definitions and meaning of purge

purge

Etymology

From Middle English purgen, from Old French purgier, from Latin pūrgō (“I make pure, I cleanse”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“I make, I do”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɝd͡ʒ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɜːd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ

Noun

purge (plural purges)

  1. An act of purging.
  2. (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
  3. A cleansing of pipes.
  4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
  5. That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.

Derived terms

  • Great Purge

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Translations

Verb

purge (third-person singular simple present purges, present participle purging, simple past and past participle purged)

  1. (transitive) To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.
  2. (transitive, religion) To free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds.
  3. (transitive) To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
  4. (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To void or evacuate (the bowels or the stomach); to defecate or vomit.
  5. (transitive, medicine) To cause someone to purge, operate on (somebody) as or with a cathartic or emetic, or in a similar manner.
  6. (transitive, of a person) To forcibly remove, e.g., from political activity.
  7. (transitive, of an organization, by extension) To forcibly remove people from.
  8. (transitive, law) To clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation.
  9. (transitive) To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
  10. (intransitive) To become pure, as by clarification.
  11. (intransitive) To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
  12. (transitive) To trim, dress, or prune.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Grupe, repug

French

Pronunciation

Noun

purge f (plural purges)

  1. purge

Verb

purge

  1. inflection of purger:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “purge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Verb

purge

  1. Alternative form of purgen

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

purge f (plural purges)

  1. (Jersey) purgative

Source: wiktionary.org