EXPURGATE


Meaning of EXPURGATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ekspə(r)geɪt ]

( expurgates, expurgating, expurgated)

If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people. ( FORMAL )

He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.

= censor

VERB : V n

• ex‧pur‧gat‧ed

It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version.

ADJ

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