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Noun Concept
Categories: Political repression, Informal legal terms, Persecution, Racism, Human rights abuses
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purge
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An abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place WordNet 3.0
English:
political
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An abrupt or sudden removal of a person or group from an organization or place WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another organization, their team leaders, or society as a whole. Wikipedia
Forcible removal of undesirable people from political activity, etc. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Removal of people who are considered undesirable Wikidata
A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity. Wiktionary
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He died in a purge by Stalin WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were not reversible. Wiktionary
IS A
removal
event
PART OF
100 words of century
HAS KIND
Night of the Long Knives
HAS INSTANCE
Black Spring
Korean literati purges
purge
Ansei Purge
Night of the Long Knives
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DERIVATION
purge
DIFFERENT FROM
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purge
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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party purge, Political purge, Purge (political), purged, purges

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