blood purge
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of blood purge
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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According to the book's editor, Yale History Professor Henry Ashby Turner Jr., Wagener was lucky to escape Göring's blood purge of June 30, 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bruning resigned in 1932, then fled Germany during the 1934 "blood purge" and later taught at Harvard.
From Time Magazine Archive
He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Levine suggests that these two are now deliberately picking off Old Bolsheviks in a judicial "blood purge" based on the needs of Russian Youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Purge out the foul corruptions that rot and fester in the blood; purge out the causes of disease, and vigorous health will follow.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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