purgare, repurgare, expurgare, purum facere (general terms: ☞ purificare not to be recommended): februare (by a sacrifice; a religious word): mundum facere, mundare, emundare (purge from dirt; mundare, emundare, post-Augustan): 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). To purify the sewers, cloacas purgare, detergere; the stables, stabula, bubilia purgare or emundare; the body from filth, abluere corpus illuvie: to purify the language, expurgare sermonem; sermonem usitatum emendare; consuetudinem vitiosam et corruptam pura et incorrupta consuetudine emendare: to purify the forum from the marks of crime, expiare forum a sceleris vestigiis.