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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



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


Words linked to "Expurgate" :   expurgation, contract, cut, reduce, bowdlerise, abridge, foreshorten, expurgator, abbreviate


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