expurgate
pronunciation
How to pronounce expurgate in British English:
UK [ˈekspəgeɪt]
How to pronounce expurgate in American English:
US [ˈekspərgeɪt]
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- Verb:
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Word Origin
- expurgate
- expurgate: see pure
- expurgate (v.)
- 1620s, "to purge" (in anatomy), back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify." Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger. Meaning "remove (something offensive or erroneous) from" is from 1670s.
Example
- 1. Is that why I 'm here ? To expurgate the crush ?
- 2. Damn all expurgate books ; the dirty book of all is the expurgate book .