Definition of expurgate in English:

expurgate

verb ˈɛkspəːɡeɪtˈɛkspərˌɡeɪt

[with object]usually as adjective expurgated

Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a text or account)
删除（书籍，描述）中的不当之处；使洁净；修订
an expurgated English translation
Example sentencesExamples
- Your Honour could make a direction that the transcript be edited or expurgated to that extent.
- In fact they expurgated any reference to animal sacrifices from their liturgy.
- I resolved to give him an expurgated account of where I'd been when I got home.
- Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated.
- Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes.
- If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses.
- Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
- Readers get an inspiring - and expurgated - story.
- She found that most of them had been expurgated to remove anything that was remotely controversial, in some cases making the author's intention unrecognizable.
- As we drew closer to World War Two here, he actually withdrew the book - I mean it was expurgated.
- Soldiers' missives haven't been routinely expurgated since World War II and the days of ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’
- Previously Mahler's letters to his wife Alma have been available only in her ruthlessly expurgated version.
- In another instance, the search engine on the BBC Web site includes the word terrorist for an entry, but the page in question has had the word expurgated.
- All reference to them has been expurgated from his works… and from all other contemporary accounts.
- The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated.
- It had been on the books since 1897, when expurgated editions of the classics, especially for consumption in classrooms, were common.
- It was first published in drastically expurgated form in 1905.
- The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference.
- Merely expurgating bigoted speech did not and could not address the underlying problem.
- Thomas Jefferson expurgated his own version by cut and paste method.
Synonyms
censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, redact, cut, edit
clean up, purge, purify, sanitize, make acceptable, make palatable, make presentable, water down, emasculate

Derivatives

expurgation

noun ɛkspəːˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkspərˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n

I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning.
Example sentencesExamples
- We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation.
- To a large degree such a separation from reality through filtered information occurred when I was a child by the censorship and expurgation of nastiness from school reading books.
- The epic has been the object of adaptation, interpolation, reinterpretation and expurgation by a number of retellers, each seeking to reflect what he saw as relevant to his time.
- She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people.

expurgator

noun ˈɛkspəːɡeɪtəˈɛkspərˌɡeɪdər

We don't need sanctimonious expurgators to decide which one is best for us.

expurgatory

adjective ɛkˈspəːɡət(ə)ri

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'purge of excrement'): from Latin expurgat- 'thoroughly cleansed', from the verb expurgare, from ex- 'out' + purgare 'cleanse'.

Definition of expurgate in US English:

expurgate

verbˈekspərˌɡātˈɛkspərˌɡeɪt

[with object]often as adjective expurgated

Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account)
删除（书籍，描述）中的不当之处；使洁净；修订
the expurgated Arabian Nights
洁本《天方夜谭》（或《一千零一夜》）。
Example sentencesExamples
- If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses.
- It had been on the books since 1897, when expurgated editions of the classics, especially for consumption in classrooms, were common.
- As we drew closer to World War Two here, he actually withdrew the book - I mean it was expurgated.
- Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated.
- She found that most of them had been expurgated to remove anything that was remotely controversial, in some cases making the author's intention unrecognizable.
- In fact they expurgated any reference to animal sacrifices from their liturgy.
- Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs.
- Soldiers' missives haven't been routinely expurgated since World War II and the days of ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’
- Merely expurgating bigoted speech did not and could not address the underlying problem.
- It was first published in drastically expurgated form in 1905.
- In another instance, the search engine on the BBC Web site includes the word terrorist for an entry, but the page in question has had the word expurgated.
- Previously Mahler's letters to his wife Alma have been available only in her ruthlessly expurgated version.
- Your Honour could make a direction that the transcript be edited or expurgated to that extent.
- All reference to them has been expurgated from his works… and from all other contemporary accounts.
- Thomas Jefferson expurgated his own version by cut and paste method.
- Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes.
- The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated.
- The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference.
- I resolved to give him an expurgated account of where I'd been when I got home.
- Readers get an inspiring - and expurgated - story.
Synonyms
censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, redact, cut, edit

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘purge of excrement’): from Latin expurgat- ‘thoroughly cleansed’, from the verb expurgare, from ex- ‘out’ + purgare ‘cleanse’.

单词	expurgate
释义	Definition of expurgate in English: expurgate verb ˈɛkspəːɡeɪtˈɛkspərˌɡeɪt [with object]usually as adjective expurgated Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a text or account) 删除（书籍，描述）中的不当之处；使洁净；修订 an expurgated English translation Example sentencesExamples Your Honour could make a direction that the transcript be edited or expurgated to that extent. In fact they expurgated any reference to animal sacrifices from their liturgy. I resolved to give him an expurgated account of where I'd been when I got home. Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated. Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes. If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses. Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs. Readers get an inspiring - and expurgated - story. She found that most of them had been expurgated to remove anything that was remotely controversial, in some cases making the author's intention unrecognizable. As we drew closer to World War Two here, he actually withdrew the book - I mean it was expurgated. Soldiers' missives haven't been routinely expurgated since World War II and the days of ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’ Previously Mahler's letters to his wife Alma have been available only in her ruthlessly expurgated version. In another instance, the search engine on the BBC Web site includes the word terrorist for an entry, but the page in question has had the word expurgated. All reference to them has been expurgated from his works… and from all other contemporary accounts. The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated. It had been on the books since 1897, when expurgated editions of the classics, especially for consumption in classrooms, were common. It was first published in drastically expurgated form in 1905. The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference. Merely expurgating bigoted speech did not and could not address the underlying problem. Thomas Jefferson expurgated his own version by cut and paste method. Synonyms censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, redact, cut, edit clean up, purge, purify, sanitize, make acceptable, make palatable, make presentable, water down, emasculate Derivatives expurgation noun ɛkspəːˈɡeɪʃ(ə)nˌɛkspərˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n I first considered printing the exchange my friend and I had, but quickly realized that expurgation would rob it of its meaning. Example sentencesExamples We know from medieval records and diaries that such threats to purity were carefully categorized and rules given for their expurgation. To a large degree such a separation from reality through filtered information occurred when I was a child by the censorship and expurgation of nastiness from school reading books. The epic has been the object of adaptation, interpolation, reinterpretation and expurgation by a number of retellers, each seeking to reflect what he saw as relevant to his time. She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people. expurgator noun ˈɛkspəːɡeɪtəˈɛkspərˌɡeɪdər We don't need sanctimonious expurgators to decide which one is best for us. expurgatory adjective ɛkˈspəːɡət(ə)ri Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'purge of excrement'): from Latin expurgat- 'thoroughly cleansed', from the verb expurgare, from ex- 'out' + purgare 'cleanse'. Definition of expurgate in US English: expurgate verbˈekspərˌɡātˈɛkspərˌɡeɪt [with object]often as adjective expurgated Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account) 删除（书籍，描述）中的不当之处；使洁净；修订 the expurgated Arabian Nights 洁本《天方夜谭》（或《一千零一夜》）。 Example sentencesExamples If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses. It had been on the books since 1897, when expurgated editions of the classics, especially for consumption in classrooms, were common. As we drew closer to World War Two here, he actually withdrew the book - I mean it was expurgated. Her curiosity piqued, she gathered 10 exams from the past three years and discovered that most of the literary passages had been expurgated. She found that most of them had been expurgated to remove anything that was remotely controversial, in some cases making the author's intention unrecognizable. In fact they expurgated any reference to animal sacrifices from their liturgy. Collated, expurgated and presented in hardback form so many years after his death the journals show a childish, drug-addled man who often verged on a limited kind of brilliance through his songs. Soldiers' missives haven't been routinely expurgated since World War II and the days of ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.’ Merely expurgating bigoted speech did not and could not address the underlying problem. It was first published in drastically expurgated form in 1905. In another instance, the search engine on the BBC Web site includes the word terrorist for an entry, but the page in question has had the word expurgated. Previously Mahler's letters to his wife Alma have been available only in her ruthlessly expurgated version. Your Honour could make a direction that the transcript be edited or expurgated to that extent. All reference to them has been expurgated from his works… and from all other contemporary accounts. Thomas Jefferson expurgated his own version by cut and paste method. Muir retrieved his letters to Carr and had some sections expurgated from them, which he hoped to reserve from the future's prying eyes. The mass media give little background, and what they do is carefully expurgated. The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference. I resolved to give him an expurgated account of where I'd been when I got home. Readers get an inspiring - and expurgated - story. Synonyms censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, redact, cut, edit Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘purge of excrement’): from Latin expurgat- ‘thoroughly cleansed’, from the verb expurgare, from ex- ‘out’ + purgare ‘cleanse’.
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