• Purging

    Verb

    1. Present participle of purge

    Full definition of purging

    Noun

    purging

    (plural purgings)
    1. The act by which something is purged.
    2. (medicine) vomiting
      • 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease (page 98)He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...
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