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unexpurgated

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ex⋅pur⋅gate

  [ek-sper-geyt]
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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.
Origin:
1615–25; < L expurgātus, ptp. of expurgāre to clean out. See ex- 1 , purge, -ate 1

Related forms:
ex⋅pur⋅ga⋅tion, noun
ex⋅pur⋅ga⋅tor, noun

Synonyms:
1. delete, excise, censor, purge, 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.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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