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Expurgate

verb
(past & past part. expurgated; pres. part. expurgating)
1.
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.  Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten.






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"Expurgate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of thinking, O ye donkeys, is your doom; Do you care to expurgate us, Positively, ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells

... education was a rather fine thing. She herself had more to do with it than girls usually have to do with their own training. In a few months' time those in authority in the French school found that it was not necessary to supervise and expurgate her. She learned with an interested rapacity which was at once unusual and amazing. And she evidently did not learn from books alone. Her voice, as an organ, had been musical and full from babyhood. ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett



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