purge

(redirected from purged)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Idioms.

Related to purged: bulimia

purge

1. Politics the elimination of opponents or dissidents from a state, political party, etc.

2. Med a purgative drug or agent; cathartic

purge

[pərj]

(computer science)

To remove data from computer storage so that space occupied by the data can be reused.

purge

To evacuate air or gas from a duct line, pipeline, container, space, or furnace; e.g., to blow out gas from a refrigerant-containing vessel.

purge

To eliminate or delete.

References in periodicals archive ?

Please be sure that the unused blocks, layers and dimensions will be purged are no longer in use before purging.

Express Tools of GstarCAD2012 Extended Version - Batpurge

They have "purged" the territory, or have rid it of the Spanish, Bolivar says.

Bolivar's letter from Jamaica

This new domestic role for the CIA comes at a time when the agency is being purged of analysts and officers not deemed loyal to the Bush administration and its agenda.

Purges and new powers at the CIA

Jeb Bush), and 57,700 of those were purged and never counted.

Every vote counts but will every vote be counted? Will the parties protect or reject black votes?

It wasn't long before another girl at school told me how she purged so she wouldn't have to diet.

The perfect girl: even though she was super-smart, outgoing and athletic, Kathryn, 17, hated herself for not being perfect. Here's the heart-wrenching story of how bulimia almost destroyed her

Data on the backup disk can be saved for up to 10 days or more, depending on your data amount, before it is purged from the disk.

D2D2T: is it quite right for you?

One, they are not being serviced (purged) every 180 days.

Purging resolving calibrating ... oh my! Night vision goggles ..

He even suggested that those already ordained be purged from the priesthood.

Mass confusion: the Roman Catholic Church blurs the clear lines between homosexuality and pedophilia as a Vatican official pins the blame for the Boston sex-abuse scandal on gay priests. (Religion)

The danger of this approach is that some weak acids also may be purged from the solution.

Loss of weak acids in nitrogen purged aqueous solutions

Administrative files may be easily scheduled according to their date; programmatic files must be purged according to their continued value.