ex·pur·gate
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Audio Help [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. |
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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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| expurgate | |
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| edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize] |
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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.
[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English
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Expurgate
Ex"pur*gate\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating.] [L. expurgatus, p. p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.] To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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