| 单词 | purge |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [pə:dʒ] |
| 解释 | v.清洗，洗涤 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 v.清洗，洗涤( to make free of something unwanted) 【记】 pure(纯)＋ge→弄干 净 【例】 The plumber purged dirty water from the tank. |
| 字源 | purge (v.) c.1300, "clear of a charge or suspicion;" late 14c., "cleanse, clear, purify," from Anglo-French purger, Old French purgier "wash, clean; refine, purify" morally or physically (12c., Modern French purger) and directly from Latin purgare "cleanse, make clean; purify," especially of the body, "free from what is superfluous; remove, clear away," figuratively "refute, justify, vindicate" (also source of Spanish purgar, Italian purgare), from Old Latin purigare, from purus "pure" (see pure) + root of agere "to drive, make" (see act (n.)). Related: Purged; purging. purge (n.) 1560s, "that which purges," from purge (v.). Meaning "a purgative, an act of purging" is from 1590s. Political sense from 1730. Earliest sense in English was the now-obsolete one "examination in a legal court" (mid-15c.). |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】源自pure，pure之；音：泼之 |
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