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expurgated

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ex·pur·gate  (kspr-gt)
tr.v. ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing, ex·pur·gates
To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
[Latin exprgre, exprgt-, to purify : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + prgre, to cleanse; see peu- in Indo-European roots.]
expur·gation n.
expur·gator n.
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Adj.1.expurgated - having material deleted; "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
censored - suppressed or subject to censorship; "the censored press in some countries"
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expurgated [ˈɛkspərgeɪtɪd] adj [version] → expurgé(e)


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Dirkovitch, who had devoted himself steadily to the brandy - the terrible brandy aforementioned - did not understand, nor did the expurgated translations offered to him at all convey the point.
The Man Who Was by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
of Expurgated Hoodlums; the Mystic Alliances of Georgeous Regalians;
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for school-boys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment, than it is by the occurrence of crime.
The Soul of Man under Socialism by Wilde, Oscar View in context
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