utrensning — meaning in English
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English meaning
- purge verb To rid something of unwanted elements; to cleanse or clear out completely.
Senses
utrensning is used for these senses in English:
- lustration (politics, law) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
- purge A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
purge — full definition
- verb To rid something of unwanted elements; to cleanse or clear out completely.
- verb To forcibly remove people, especially from a political organization.
- noun An act of forcibly removing people or unwanted elements.