purgar

From Latin purgāre (“to purge; to clean”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make”).

• Hyphenation: pur‧gar

purgar (first-person singular present purgo, first-person singular preterite purguei, past participle purgado)

1. to purge (clean thoroughly; cleanse; rid of impurities)
2. (religion) to purge (free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds)

   Synonyms: absolver, redimir, remir

3. (medicine) to give laxatives

• (to clean): See Thesaurus:limpar

• (to clean): See Thesaurus:limpar

• purger

From German Bürger.

pȕrgar m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ргар)

1. burgher
2. a citizen of Zagreb

• građanin

From Latin purgāre, present active infinitive of purgō (“to purge; to clean”), from pūrus (“clean, pure”) + agō (“to make”).

• IPA^(key): /puɾˈɡaɾ/ [puɾˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pur‧gar

purgar (first-person singular present purgo, first-person singular preterite purgué, past participle purgado)

1. to purge
2. to drain
3. to bleed (to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids)

• “purgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014