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means To forcibly remove or eliminate unwanted elements from something — whether that's toxins from a body, dissidents from a party, or files from a system.

from From French purger, rooted in Latin purgare, 'to cleanse or purify' — itself a blend of purus ('pure') and agere ('to do' or 'to drive'). So at its core, to purge is literally 'to do pure' — to drive out whatever doesn't belong. The word spent centuries in medicine, describing the brutal old practice of clearing the bowels or blood of supposed bad humors, before politics borrowed it for cleaning out people instead of toxins — a shift that kept the violence of the original cure intact.