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