purge

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Use git-grep or GNU grep": jumbo:lk dfc$ purge ; time grep -r --exclude-dir=.git "leap second" .

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Quick take

the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of purge gathered in one view.

noun

the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

noun

an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

noun

an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; "he died in a purge by Stalin"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for purge.

noun

the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

noun

an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

noun

an abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place; "he died in a purge by Stalin"

verb

oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"

verb

clear of a charge

verb

make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"

verb

rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

verb

rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"

verb

eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"

See also: vomit, cast, sick, cat, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew

verb

excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"

Example sentences

Use git-grep or GNU grep": jumbo:lk dfc$ purge ; time grep -r --exclude-dir=.git "leap second" .

They'd pay a huge premium to acquire a bunch of Android customers than they'd promptly purge.

The purge command is pretty much the worst thing you can do to OS X, essentially blowing away the filesystem cache.

Microsoft could take the opposite approach and ruthlessly purge garbage apps so they could market a high quality app store.

In other words, using purge 'utilities' actually puts the system into the worst possible state.

For instance the 2000 election was decided in Florida, in part due to a voter purge that the courts decided was illegal.

Just a note: all the ads will be removable with the command: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping --purge

The lesson learned is that voter purges work, which is why Florida was trying to do a purge this year at the last minute despite being warned that it was illegal.

Isaac was a key individual involved in this drama, defending the purge by claiming he'd received an abusive email from the exiled employee.

I don't know how prevalent they are, but if you expect a target to try to reinstall their operating system to attempt to purge an infection it is possible to counter this.

Cperciva's auto-purge or my auto-accept suggestion partly solves this issue.

You can't purge backups: if the servers were allowed to go in and remotely modify the off-site backups to purge deleted data, then an intruder could do the same thing for all data.

FUD: # remove package, its dependents _and_ purge config files aptitude purge <package-name> # purge config files from items that were removed but not purged aptitude purge ~c And, to play Devil's advocate the other way around, because Debian's tools are not sandboxed, they can inter-operate sanely.

He took the data over a certain amount of time, and given the amount of documents it is infeasible that he could purge truly sensitive information withing a decent timeframe, therefore he did the next best thing, which was to contact respectable news outlets and give them the documents on the condition that they use their resources to do what he could not.