How to say "purge" in Japanese

• 追放ついほうJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers 'purge' as the forcible removal or expulsion of people: banishment, exile, or being driven out of a party or organization. Think of a politician purged from the party.
  支配者しはいしゃは打倒だとうされ国外こくがいに追放ついほうされた。↗

  The ruler was overthrown and banished from the country.
• 浄化じょうかCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers 'purge' as a cleansing or cleanup: ridding politics or an organization of corruption or impurity. It names the process of purification rather than the expulsion of particular people.
• パージCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbA loanword for 'purge' in the sense of removing people from office, especially public officials; use it when talking about officials being purged from government or public bodies.

Use 追放 for forcibly expelling people, 浄化 for the abstract cleansing of politics or an organization, and 「パージ」 for purges of public officials.

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• 追放ついほうexile
• 公職追放こうしょくついほうexpulsion of a public official and subsequent ban on participating in politics (by the SCAP during the allied occupation)
• 清めるきよめるto purify
• 粛清しゅくせい(political) purge
• 浄化じょうかcleanup (e.g. of politics)
• パージpurge (esp. of public officials)