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Expurgating
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ex·pur·gate       [ek-sper-geyt] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing.
1.to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
2.to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
[Origin: 1615–25; < L expurgātus, ptp. of expurgāre to clean out. See ex-1, purge, -ate1]

—Related forms
ex·pur·ga·tion, noun
ex·pur·ga·tor, noun

—Synonyms 1. delete, excise, censor, purge, bowdlerize.
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ex·pur·gate       (ěk'spər-gāt')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing, ex·pur·gates
To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.


[Latin expūrgāre, expūrgāt-, to purify : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + pūrgāre, to cleanse; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.]

ex'pur·ga'tion n., ex'pur·ga'tor n.
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