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expurgated

expurgated

1 8.6
A book or film with parts removed because they are offensive
  • adjective
  • /ˈɛkspərˌɡeɪtɪd/
translation icon : expurgado
  • Before publication, the author submitted an expurgated manuscript to remove sensitive content.
  • expurgated version

And yet that's it's the topic is as expurgated from thought today as much as sex wasn't talked about before Freud.

Examples

  • The teacher provided an expurgated version of the novel to make it suitable for younger students.

  • In effect, if not literally, the Bible is expurgated, bowdlerized, but the God who emerges from this process is not the God of our fathers.

    Academic text (1998)

  • This thin and largely expurgated presentation of the national experience is the underside of the daily retailing of corporate images and messages, and the endless affirmations of commercial culture.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Hitler at that time permitted only an expurgated version of Mein Kampf to be translated into English, and the German publisher would not allow the Leader's fundamental tenets to be translated in Oakeshott's reader.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The magazine released an expurgated article that omitted controversial statements to avoid backlash.

Synonyms

censored
vsexpurgated
4.4

Published with parts removed or changed because the government forbids them

is removed by editors before publication to avoid sensitive content

Antonyms

unexpurgated
1 9.6

A text that keeps all parts, including those some people find offensive

How Censored

bowdlerization
  • Literature
1 9.9
sanitized
  • US
4.6
expurgated
1 8.6
censored
4.4
to redact
  • Formal
35 7.5

Surface Forms

expurgated positive

Morphology

expurgated = expurgate (semi-transparent) = ex + purg + ate + ed

The word 'expurgated' is clearly derived from 'expurgate' with the addition of the past participle suffix '-ed'.

Etymology

Expurgated comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and purgare 'to clean', and you can see the same idea in purify or pure. So an expurgated text is 'cleaned out' and has scenes or words removed because people find them offensive or inappropriate.