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expurgate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
| Type of | abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| Derivation | expurgation, expurgator |
Examples of expurgate
expurgate
It was decided to expurgate the existing document, which had been removed from circulation and release it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Do we expurgate their records?
From the signonsandiego.com
By the time of the 1954 Supreme Court case that Scalia later sought to expurgate, the word had become enshrined in property law, even lending its name to the so-called choateness doctrine of liens.
From the nytimes.com
- Bowdlerize: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- (expurgated) having material deleted; "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
- Expurgation is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive, usually from an artistic work.
- To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge
- Clean; remove offensive parts of a book
- To clear from anything hurtful, offensive or erroneous
