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Deleting things, people, or files with the confidence of someone who won't remember why.
means To violently or thoroughly remove something unwanted, whether toxins, dissidents, or browser cookies.
from From Latin purgare, to cleanse or purify, via the same root as 'pure' — once medical, it cleared the body; politics borrowed the word and the brutality.
Stalin's eraThe Great Purge killed roughly a million people.
Medical pastDoctors prescribed purges for centuries, mostly uselessly.
Tech meaningCache purges clear stored data on command.