expurgate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin expurgātus, perfect passive participle of expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”).
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expurgate (third-person singular simple present expurgates, present participle expurgating, simple past and past participle expurgated)
- (transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
- The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Texan”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 6:
- Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling.
- (transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.
- The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.
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to cleanse, to purge
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Latin edit
Participle edit
expūrgāte
Spanish edit
Verb edit
expurgate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of expurgar combined with te