purge

1. An act or instance of purging.
2. An evacuation of the bowels or the stomach; a defecation or vomiting.
3. Something which or someone who purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
4. A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity. · Stalin liked to ensure that his purges were irreversible.
5. An act or instance of the cleansing of pipes.
6. A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
7. The temporarily worsening of acne due to the introduction of skincare products that increase cell turnover, bringing underlying blemishes to the surface more quickly.
8. A period of time in which normal rules supposedly do not apply; especially, a time for violence and gang war. (slang)

Plural purges