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expurgated
Variant of expurgate
transitive verb expurgated, expurgating
- to remove passages considered obscene or otherwise objectionable from (a book, etc.)
- to expunge (objectionable material) from; delete
Related Forms:
- expurgation noun
- expurgator noun
- expurgatory adjective
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