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Expurgate vs Delete - What's the difference?

expurgate | delete |

As a verb expurgate

is to edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, cd or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

As a noun delete is

a key that may be pressed to delete something (including text or files) from a computer.

expurgate

English

Verb

  • To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
    • The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.

    Derived terms

    * expurgator * expurgatory * expurgatorious

    See also

    * bowdlerise

    delete

    English

    (Deletion)

    Noun

    (-)
    • I lost the file when I accidentally hit delete .
  • A remainder of a music or video release.

    • Verb

    (delet)
  • To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer.
  • (computer) To hide, conceal

    • Synonyms

    * (to get rid of) erase, strike, terminate, cease existence, remove, rub out, strike out, obliterate, cancel, cross out, score, scrub, scrap, scratch, expunge, eliminate, blue-pencil, exclude, squelch

    Antonyms

    * (to get rid of) insert, maintain

    Related terms

    * deleterious * deletion * delible