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Expurgated vs Expurgate - What's the difference?

expurgated | expurgate |

As verbs the difference between expurgated and expurgate

is that expurgated is past tense of expurgate while 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 an adjective expurgated

is having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed.

expurgated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having had erroneous, obscene, or other objectionable material removed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (expurgate)

    • 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