Extricate vs Purge - What's the difference?
extricate | purge |
To free, disengage, loosen, or untangle.
(rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
* 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
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 transitive terms the difference between extricate and purge
is that extricate is to free, disengage, loosen, or untangle while purge is to clarify; to clear the dregs from (liquor).As a noun purge is
an act of purging.extricate
English
Verb
(extricat)- I finally managed to extricate myself from the tight jacket.
- The firemen had to use the jaws of life to extricate Monica from the car wreck.
- Your argumentation ... is invelloped with certain intricacies, that are not easie to be extricated .
References
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English
(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.