purger

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English

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Etymology

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From purge +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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purger (plural purgers)

  1. One who, or that which, purges or cleanses.
    1. A cathartic medicine.
      • 1728, Of Bathing in the Hot-baths, at Bathe:
        The Aix-la-Chapelle Waters are drunk at this Day, more as Purgers, and Preparatives for the Spaw, []

Synonyms

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin purgāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pyʁ.ʒe/
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Verb

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purger

  1. (medicine) to purge
  2. (law) to serve (a sentence)
  3. to bleed (to remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids)

Conjugation

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This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written purge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

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Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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pūrger

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pūrgō

Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Bürger.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pȕrger m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ргер)

  1. burgher
  2. a citizen of Zagreb
  3. (derogatory) a member of the Dinamo Zagreb ultras
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