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v. To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

v. To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

v. To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge.

To purge; cleanse; remove anything obnoxious, offensive, or erroneous from; specifically, to free from what is objectionable on moral or religious grounds: as, to expurgate a book; an expurgated edition of Shakspere.

v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

"I would not 'expurgate' school editions of great authors; the frank obscenity of parts of Shakespeare is far less immoral than the prurient prudishness which declines to print it, but numbers the lines in such a way that the boy can go home and look up the omitted passage in a complete edition, with a distinct sense of guilt, which is where the harm comes in. ""

expurgated    expurgates    expurgating   

shorten    abbreviate    abridge    contract    foreshorten   

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expurgated    expurgating    expurgator    expurgatory    expurgatorious   

purify    cleanse    purge    emasculate    expurge