Expurgate

[Ex·pur*gate]

To expurgate is to censor. Usually, people talk about expurgating bad words from something written or on TV.

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To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Verb
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"


v. t.
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.


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.

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

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