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ex·pur·gate

 (ĕk′spər-gāt′)
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 expūrgāre, expūrgāt-, to purify : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + pūrgāre, to cleanse; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.]
ex′pur·ga′tion n.
ex′pur·ga′tor n.
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expurgated

(ˈɛkspəɡeɪtɪd)
adj
(Journalism & Publishing) publishing amended by the removal of offensive material
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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.
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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.
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Defying the censors, Goldstein restored the expurgated scenes in a brave and precocious instance of a Director's Cut.
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