Expurgate vs Exit - What's the difference?
expurgate | exit |
To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
A way out.
A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside, outgang.
The action of leaving.
Death.
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 exit is
success.expurgate
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Verb
- The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.
Derived terms
* expurgator * expurgatory * expurgatoriousSee also
* bowdleriseexit
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Noun
(en noun)- He was looking for the exit and got lost .
- She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside .
- He made his exit at the opportune time .
- The untimely exit of a consummate politician .
