| 单词 | expurgate |
| 释义 | expurgate (once / 13696 pages) v To expurgate is to censor. Usually, people talk about expurgating bad words from something written or on TV. On TV, if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been expurgated. In print, we can expurgate by using dashes ( — — ) or random characters like %&$#. Sometimes we can expurgate just by rewriting something so that the entire sentence with the naughty parts is gone, or by putting it into mild words. When it comes to things children read or watch, there's often the difficult question of what to expurgate and what to leave alone. WORD FAMILYexpurgate: expurgated, expurgates, expurgating, expurgation, expurgator+/expurgated: unexpurgated/expurgation: expurgations/expurgator: expurgators USAGE EXAMPLES“Quiet seems to be regarded as a detestable condition to be expurgated by any means which applied science can devise.” The Guardian(Oct 26, 2016) None of the men who confessed have spoken publicly, and most of their statements appear to have been heavily expurgated. The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016) The movie’s climactic punch line was repeatedly expurgated and reinstated during previews. New York Times(Oct 07, 2016) v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate Syn|Hyper bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
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