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    EXPURGATE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they expurgate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it expurgates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: expurgated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: expurgated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: expurgating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicateplay

    Example:

    bowdlerize a novel

    Synonyms:

    bowdlerise; bowdlerize; castrate; expurgate; shorten

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "expurgate" is one way to...):

    abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Sentence example:

    They won't expurgate the story


    Derivation:

    expurgation (the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work)

    expurgator (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages)

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