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パージする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Computing term for deleting or clearing unnecessary data, files, or records.

Historical and political term, especially for the removal of officials from public office, as in the post-WWII purge (公職追放).

〈物もの〉をパージするto purge/delete unneeded data or files
不ふ要ようになったログファイルをパージする。
We purge log files that are no longer needed.
〈人ひと〉をパージするto purge someone from a post or organization
戦せん後ご、多おおくの官かん僚りょうが公こう職しょくからパージされた。
After the war, many bureaucrats were purged from public office.

公こう職しょく追つい放ほう sense 2
公職追放 is the native Japanese term for the postwar purge of officials from public office, while パージ is the loanword used in the same historical context.
削さく除じょN3sense 1
削除 is the everyday word for deleting data or text, while パージ is a more technical computing term for clearing out unneeded data.
追つい放ほうN1sense 2
追放 is the general word for expelling or banishing someone from a position or place, while パージ specifically evokes the political purge sense borrowed from English.
粛しゅく清せい sense 2
粛清 implies a harsher, often violent political purge (as in a dictatorship), whereas パージ is a milder loanword for removing officials from office.

Loanword from English 'purge', borrowed into Japanese with the same core meaning of removal or elimination.