purge
verb (used with object)
have purged
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present perfectof purge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Together, they have purged anyone who might say no to him.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
Many who struggle to recover from their illness seem to harbor the pathogen long after other patients have purged it, perhaps goading the immune system into prolonging its frantic inflammatory siege.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
Jurisdictions previously covered by the now-defunct preclearance provision have closed at least 1,688 polling places and have purged voters at a rate 40 percent higher than that in other jurisdictions.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2019
Government investigators now occupy the cleric’s main temple in Beijing, and they have purged his cadre of loyal monks and are scouring his books for financial wrongdoing.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2018
And Horace seems to have purged himself from those splenetic reflections in those odes and epodes before he undertook the noble work of satires, which were properly so called.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
