Pursed vs Purged - What's the difference?
pursed | purged |
(purse)
A small bag for carrying money.
* 1550 Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
(US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
(historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To put into a purse.
* Shakespeare
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To steal purses; to rob.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(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.
As verbs the difference between pursed and purged
is that pursed is (purse) while purged is (purge).pursed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *purse
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(wikipedia purse)Noun
(en noun)- And then mu?t many a man occupie as farre as his pur?e would reache, and ?tretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
Synonyms
* (small bag for carrying money) pocketbook; coin purse, change purse * (especially US) * (small bag used by women) handbag (especially UK) * (quantity of money) bursary, grantDerived terms
* common purse * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * murseSee also
* walletVerb
(purs)- When you're feeling in the dumps
- Don't be silly chumps
- Just purse your lips and whistle – that's the thing.
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- I will go and purse the ducats straight.
- I'll purse : I'll bet at bowling alleys.
Synonyms
* puckerAnagrams
* ----purged
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Verb
(head)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.