to expurgate

Examples

• All

• I know this must be making you uncomfortable, but there's no sense in me expurgating a dream, Rose.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Like Spaceman, homeless on some college campus, collecting recyclables, begging for quarters, and trying to expurgate extradimensionals from my head.

  Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)

• With your help, I can expurgate these extradimensionals.

  Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)

• And that's going to allow him to throw away or expurgate some of the candidates for fairy stories.

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• These people are incorrigible, and since none of them could graduate anyway, you are all expurgated.

  Lean On Me (1989)

• If the people at TED deemed the presenter adept enough to invite them to give a talk, then to subsequently take on the role of a censor and expurgate the presentation from the TED website is an unthinkable action.

  Blog text (2)

• Only the initial part of the hearing was published—even that duly expurgated, with many discussions omitted as "off the record."

  Academic text (1997)

• Misread by those around her, Alison thus functions like the queer that, perceived to be abject, is actually, "the contaminated and expurgated insides of the heterosexual subject" (Fuss 3).

  Academic text (2008)

• The editor had to expurgate several sections of the manuscript to meet publishing standards.

• Before publication, the author chose to expurgate offensive language from the novel.

Synonyms

C

to censor

vsto expurgate

514 5.2

To remove parts of books and films that are offensive or about politics

focuses on editing texts by removing or altering offensive parts

E

to expunge

vsto expurgate

21 8.8

To remove all signs of something like a record or memory so it cannot be found

permits partial alteration instead of total erasure

E

to excise

vsto expurgate

• Formal

14 7.2

To cut out part of a body or text

allows changing or softening parts instead of full removal

S

to sanitize

vsto expurgate

• US

12 4.9

Remove or change words people find offensive to make something more acceptable

is specific to editing books and plays rather than any object or situation

C

to castrate

vsto expurgate

1 9.3

To remove parts of a book or film to make it less offensive

has identical meaning and is another term for the same editing action

B

to bowdlerize

vsto expurgate

• Literature

1 9.9

Remove or change parts of a work because they may upset people

is the same editing but without implying a weakened or poorer result

Antonyms

I

to include

∞ 1.0

To make a person or thing part of something larger

How Extensive

to bowdlerize

• Literature

1 9.9

to censor

514 5.2

to expurgate

1 9.6

to redact

• Formal

35 7.5

edit

57 2.8

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Etymology