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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.
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expurgate
1620s, from L. expurgatus, pp. of expurgare "to cleanse out" (see expurgation). Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from M.Fr. expurger.
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expurgate [(ek-spuhr-gayt)]To clean up, remove impurities. An expurgated edition of a book has had offensive words or descriptions changed or removed.
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