purge

Public-sector language is purged of all references to genuine history and science, in a campaign George Orwell would have found crude and obvious.

Agents regarded these moves as a purge, and press reports claimed that bureau morale was at an all-time low, charges that Gray denied.

Christian Nationalists are engaged in an ongoing purge of anyone in government who doesn’t see things their way.

She added: "Winter mortality of lambs removes inbred individuals, removes bad genes, so the flock has this purging thing the whole time which I don't think we would be able to organise."

But that was back in the early days of the Department of Government Efficiency purges, and the party was still a bit shell-shocked.