Definition of "purging" [pur•ging]

• Present participle of purge. (verb)

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• "Malan identified what he calls the purging of whites from the ranks of civil service as the root cause of the decay."
• "Electronic purging is so much harder than physical organization, I think, because it takes up no space."
• "And besides, I think it makes a nice contrast with a number of leading climate alarmist sites that do not accept comments or are Stalinist in purging dissent from them."