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Definition of Expurgate
1. Verb. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. "They won't expurgate the story "; "Bowdlerize a novel"
Generic synonyms: Abbreviate, Abridge, Contract, Cut, Foreshorten, Reduce, Shorten
Derivative terms: Bowdler, Bowdlerisation, Bowdlerisation, Bowdleriser, Bowdlerization, Bowdlerization, Bowdlerizer, Castration, Expurgation, Expurgator
Definition of Expurgate
1. v. t. To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
Definition of Expurgate
1. Verb. (transitive) To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expurgate
1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expurgate
Literary usage of Expurgate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise Relative to the Testing of Water-wheels and Machinery: Also of by James Emerson (1894)
"expurgate the atrocity and obscenity of the Bible and only spiritualism would
remain. expurgate what at this day cannot publicly he read from Shakespeare's ..."
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