expurgate

To expurgate is defined as to edit or remove material that is considered to be obscene or objectionable.

(verb)

When you edit out the parts of a book you consider to be inappropriate, this is an example of a time when you expurgate.

See expurgate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to remove passages considered obscene or otherwise objectionable from (a book, etc.)
to expunge (objectionable material) from; delete

Origin: < L expurgatus, pp. of expurgare, to purge, cleanse < ex-, out + purgare, purge

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See expurgate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing, ex·pur·gates

To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.

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Origin: Latin expūrgāre, expūrgāt-, to purify

Origin: : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex-

Origin: + pūrgāre, to cleanse; see peuə- in Indo-European roots

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