expurgate
verb [usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they expurgate | |
| he / she / it expurgates | |
| past simple expurgated | |
| past participle expurgated | |
| -ing form expurgating |
- expurgate something
to remove or leave out parts of a piece of writing or a conversation when printing or reporting it, because you think those parts could offend people 删除…中的不当之处；略去…中的不雅之处 She gave an expurgated account of what had happened. 她对所发生的事情做了删节的叙述。
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘purge of excrement’): from Latin expurgat- ‘thoroughly cleansed’, from the verb expurgare, from ex- ‘out’ + purgare ‘cleanse’.