Purged vs Gurged - What's the difference?
purged | gurged |
(purge)
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.
(gurge)
(obsolete) To swallow up.
(obsolete) A whirlpool.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between purged and gurged
is that purged is (purge) while gurged is (gurge).purged
English
Verb
(head)purge
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.
gurged
English
Verb
(head)gurge
English
Etymology 1
See (gorge).Verb
(gurg)Etymology 2
(etyl) (lena) gurges.Noun
(en noun)- The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge / Boils out from under ground.
