purgare, repurgare, expurgare, purum facere (general terms, purificare not to be recommended): februare (by o sacrifice; a religious word): mundum facere, mundare, emundare (purge from dirt): eluere (wash or rinse out): abluere (by washing off): tergere, detergere (wipe off, sweep): extergere (wipe out): verrere, everrere (sweep, sweep out): lustrare (consecrate by a purifying sacrifice): expiare (expiate): cleanse the sewers, cloacas purgare, detergere: the stables, stabula, bubilia puigare or emundare: the body from filth, abluere corpus illuvie; sores, expurgare ulcera: the forum of the marks of crime, expiare forum a sceleris vestigiis.