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purge
noun as in elimination, removal
verb as in rid of; clean out
Example Sentences
The Defense Department purges images, biographies and histories that reference the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
“His heart isn’t in the nativist purge the way the rest of his administration’s heart is into it,” the Cato Institute’s director of immigration studies, David J. Bier, told the New York Times.
The purge, which became known as the “Eureka method,” was hailed by white people as nonviolent and copied across California — including in Del Norte County, where Dock lived.
If leftists or progressives suffer a defeat, that is taken as proof that they can’t be tolerated and must be purged.
The recent purge of several high-level members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent shock waves through the political establishment.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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