expurgate
verb/ˈekspəɡeɪt/
/ˈekspərɡeɪt/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expurgate | /ˈekspəɡeɪt/ /ˈekspərɡeɪt/ |
| he / she / it expurgates | /ˈekspəɡeɪts/ /ˈekspərɡeɪts/ |
| past simple expurgated | /ˈekspəɡeɪtɪd/ /ˈekspərɡeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle expurgated | /ˈekspəɡeɪtɪd/ /ˈekspərɡeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form expurgating | /ˈekspəɡeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈekspərɡeɪtɪŋ/ |
- expurgate something to remove or leave out parts of a piece of writing or a conversation when printing or reporting it, because you think those parts could offend people
- She gave an expurgated account of what had happened.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘purge of excrement’): from Latin expurgat- ‘thoroughly cleansed’, from the verb expurgare, from ex- ‘out’ + purgare ‘cleanse’.
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