expurgate
/EK-sper-gayt/verbto remove objectionable material from a text
“The school edition expurgates two chapters entirely.”
- Synonyms
- censor, bowdlerize, sanitize
- Antonyms
- restore
- Memory hook
- ex + purgare (cleanse): scrubbed for delicate readers.
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