purgar

From Latin purgāre (“to purge; to clean”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make”).

• Hyphenation: pur‧gar

purgar (first-person singular present purgo, first-person singular preterite purguei, past participle purgado)

1. to purge (clean thoroughly; cleanse; rid of impurities)
2. (religion) to purge (free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds)

   Synonyms: absolver, redimir, remir

3. (medicine) to give laxatives

• (to clean): See Thesaurus:limpar

• (antonym(s) of “to clean”): See Thesaurus:limpar

• purger

Borrowed from German Bürger.

pȕrgar m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ргар)

1. burgher
2. a citizen of Zagreb

• građanin

From Latin purgāre (“to purge; to clean”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make”).

• IPA^(key): /puɾˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pur‧gar

purgar (first-person singular present purgo, first-person singular preterite purgué, past participle purgado)

1. (transitive) to purge
2. (religion, transitive) to purge

   Synonym: expiar

   • 1898, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Oñate a la Granja, Chapter I:

     ha venido usted a purgar el pecado de meterse a redentor

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (transitive) to drain
4. (transitive) to bleed (to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids)

   purgar el radiador

   drain the radiator

• “purgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014