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Expurgated vs Expurgates - What's the difference?

expurgated | expurgates |

As verbs the difference between expurgated and expurgates

is that expurgated is (expurgate) while expurgates is (expurgate).

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)

    • expurgates

    English

    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