清洗，清除：指彻底清除或清洗某物或某个群体中的不需要或不合适的成员或元素。
肃清，清洗：指政治上的大规模清洗行动，通常用于指政府或组织对其内部的政治异己分子或不忠诚成员的清洗。
... purge of 清除 purge 净化 purgee 被放逐者 ...
The army have called for a more thorough purge of people associated with the late president.
军队已要求对已故总统的关联人物来一次更彻底地清除。
In the Blood Purge of 1934, a Nazi SS squad murdered Kurt von Schleicher in the doorway of his home.
在1934年的血液清洗中，一个纳粹党卫军小队在库尔特·冯·施莱歇家的门口谋杀了他。
Unfortunately, there was an unintended consequence of the successful purge of cockroaches.
不幸的是，清除蟑螂带来了意想不到的后果。
They can live there until the death of the high priest, and the death of the high priest symbolically serves to purge or remove the blood guilt or impurity of the accidental homicide.
他们可以住在那里直到大祭司死去，大祭司的死亡象征着净化,或移除这个意外杀人者的罪孽或不洁。
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The land will purge itself of the impurity by vomiting them out.
将居民驱逐出去以后，土地会自我净化。
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Now we've been charting for a couple of weeks now Milton's long-standing project to purge his lips of secular interests and to cleanse his literary consciousness of the tempting influence of secular literary voices, and one of those voices is obviously Shakespeare's.
现在我们已经讨论了几个星期了,弥尔顿长期坚持的项目像净化世俗利益,净化世俗的文学看法的影响,对他文学意识诱惑，其中有一个看法显然是莎士比亚的。
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After a purge of the intelligence services in 2004, the immigration authorities appear to have mislaid their files.
ECONOMIST: The hopes kindled by the saffron revolution have faded fast
Then, they said he had orchestrated a purge of dissidents to further political goals.
If Mr Mbeki's departure becomes an all-out purge of those close to him, this may happen.