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Expurgate
Ex′pur-gate
(ĕks′pŭr-gāt or ĕks-pûr′gāt; 277)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Expurgated
(ĕksˊpŭr-gā′tĕd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Expurgating
(ĕksˊpŭr-gā′tĭng)
.] [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 bookWebster 1828 Edition
Expurgate
EX'PURGATE
,Verb.
T.
To purge; to cleanse; to purify from any thing noxious, offensive or erroneous.
Definition 2024
expurgate
expurgate
English
Verb
expurgate (third-person singular simple present expurgates, present participle expurgating, simple past and past participle expurgated)
- (transitive) To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
- The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.
Derived terms
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Translations
to cleanse, to purge