单词 | expurgate |
释义 | expurgate (ekspəʳgeɪt ) Word forms: expurgates , expurgating , expurgated verb 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. [VERB noun] Synonyms: censor, cut, clean up [informal], purge expurgated adjective It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version. |
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