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root((PURG))
purge
1、 To clear of guilt or sin.
2、 To free of something unwanted or considered impure.
🌱During the 1930s, Stalin purged the Soviet communist party of thousands of members who he suspected of disloyalty. 🌳In some cultures, a ritual bath or prayer is performed to purge guilt or evil spirits. The Minoans of ancient Crete may have used human sacrifice as a way of purging the entire community, which is fine for the community but rough on the victims. In many cultures, people periodically purge themselves physically—that is, clean out their digestive tracts—by taking strong laxatives; this used to be a popular springtime ritual, and herbal purgatives were readily available. expurgate To cleanse of something morally harmful or offensive; to remove objectionable parts from.
🌱In those years, high-school English classes only used expurgated editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 🌳Expurgation has a long and questionable history. Perhaps history's most famous expurgator, or censor, was the English editor Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published the Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of Shakespeare's plays that omitted or changed any passages that, in Bowdler's opinion, couldn't decently be read aloud in a family. As a result, the term bowdlerize is now a synonym of expurgate. purgative 1、 Cleansing or purifying, especially from sin.
2、 Causing a significant looseness of the bowels.
🌱I'm afraid my ten-year-old discovered the purgative effect of too many apples after a lazy afternoon in the orchard. 🌳Purgative can be used as a noun as well as an adjective. For centuries, doctors prescribed purgatives—that is, laxatives—for all kinds of ailments, not knowing anything better to do. Physical cleansing has always reminded people of emotional and spiritual cleansing, as expressed in the saying "Cleanliness is next to godliness." So we may say, for example, that confession has a purgative effect on the soul. Some psychologists used to claim that expressing your anger is purgative; but in fact it may generally be no better for your emotional life than taking a laxative, and can sometimes really foul things up. purgatory 1、 According to Roman Catholic doctrine, the place where the souls of those who have died in God's grace must pay for their sins through suffering before ascending to heaven.
2、 A place or state of temporary suffering or misery.
🌱For both of them, filled with anxiety, the long, sleepless night felt like purgatory. 🌳Purgatory is the place where the soul is cleansed of all impurities, as Dante described in his great poem The Divine Comedy.Today purgatory can refer to any place or situation in which suffering and misery are felt to be sharp but temporary. Waiting to hear the results of a test, or whether you got a good job, can be a purgatory. And an endless after-dinner speech can make an entire roomful of people feel as if they're in purgatory.
2、 To free of something unwanted or considered impure.
🌱During the 1930s, Stalin purged the Soviet communist party of thousands of members who he suspected of disloyalty. 🌳In some cultures, a ritual bath or prayer is performed to purge guilt or evil spirits. The Minoans of ancient Crete may have used human sacrifice as a way of purging the entire community, which is fine for the community but rough on the victims. In many cultures, people periodically purge themselves physically—that is, clean out their digestive tracts—by taking strong laxatives; this used to be a popular springtime ritual, and herbal purgatives were readily available. expurgate To cleanse of something morally harmful or offensive; to remove objectionable parts from.
🌱In those years, high-school English classes only used expurgated editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 🌳Expurgation has a long and questionable history. Perhaps history's most famous expurgator, or censor, was the English editor Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published the Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of Shakespeare's plays that omitted or changed any passages that, in Bowdler's opinion, couldn't decently be read aloud in a family. As a result, the term bowdlerize is now a synonym of expurgate. purgative 1、 Cleansing or purifying, especially from sin.
2、 Causing a significant looseness of the bowels.
🌱I'm afraid my ten-year-old discovered the purgative effect of too many apples after a lazy afternoon in the orchard. 🌳Purgative can be used as a noun as well as an adjective. For centuries, doctors prescribed purgatives—that is, laxatives—for all kinds of ailments, not knowing anything better to do. Physical cleansing has always reminded people of emotional and spiritual cleansing, as expressed in the saying "Cleanliness is next to godliness." So we may say, for example, that confession has a purgative effect on the soul. Some psychologists used to claim that expressing your anger is purgative; but in fact it may generally be no better for your emotional life than taking a laxative, and can sometimes really foul things up. purgatory 1、 According to Roman Catholic doctrine, the place where the souls of those who have died in God's grace must pay for their sins through suffering before ascending to heaven.
2、 A place or state of temporary suffering or misery.
🌱For both of them, filled with anxiety, the long, sleepless night felt like purgatory. 🌳Purgatory is the place where the soul is cleansed of all impurities, as Dante described in his great poem The Divine Comedy.Today purgatory can refer to any place or situation in which suffering and misery are felt to be sharp but temporary. Waiting to hear the results of a test, or whether you got a good job, can be a purgatory. And an endless after-dinner speech can make an entire roomful of people feel as if they're in purgatory.
PURG comes from the Latin verb purgare,"to clean or cleanse." Almost all the English words where it shows up are closely related to those discussed below.🌸