Defecate vs Purge - What's the difference?
defecate | purge |
To purify, to clean of dregs etc.
* Boyle
* , New York 2001, p.224:
To purge; to pass (something) as excrement.
To empty one's bowels of feces.
(obsolete) Freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.
* Bates
An act of .
(medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
A cleansing of pipes.
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities
(religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
To remove by cleansing; to wash away.
* Bible, Psalms lxxix. 9
* Addison
(medicine) to void (the bowels); to vomit.
(medicine) To operate on (somebody) as a cathartic, or in a similar manner.
(legal) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
To clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).
To become pure, as by clarification.
To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.
In intransitive terms the difference between defecate and purge
is that defecate is to empty one's bowels of feces while purge is to have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.As verbs the difference between defecate and purge
is that defecate is to purify, to clean of dregs etc while purge is to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities.As an adjective defecate
is freed from pollutants, dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.As a noun purge is
an act of purging.defecate
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Alternative forms
* * defaecateVerb
(defecat)- to defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber
- Some are of opinion that such fat, standing waters make the best beer, and that seething doth defecate it […].
Usage notes
* The sense 'to purify' is rare in contrast to the common mean to empty bowels.Synonyms
* drop the kids off at the pool, (vulgar) shit, (vulgar) shite, (vulgar) take a shit, (slang) take a dump, (informal) drop a deuce * See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- Till the soul be defecate from the dregs of sense.
purge
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(wikipedia purge)Noun
(en noun)- Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible.
- (Arbuthnot)
Verb
(purg)- Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.
- We'll join our cares to purge away / Our country's crimes.