purgatory🔊

Any situation where suffering is endured, particularly as part of a process of redemption.

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Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Tending to cleanse; expiatory.

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