expurgate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin expurgātus, perfect passive participle of expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”).

The plays of Shakespeare are expurgated only where necessary for school use. — The Short-story, Unknown
By the day of the wedding she would be rolling a steady diapason of polite, decolourised, expurgated, ladylike profanity. — In Our Town, William Allen White
But we must turn to Condillac’s book if we want to see how the Physiocratic doctrine should be completed and expurgated of its errors. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide

bowdlerize, bowdlerise, castrate, shorten

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