expurgate in English

verb

1

remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).

the expurgated Arabian Nights

synonyms: censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, cut, edit, clean up, sanitize, make acceptable, make palatable, water down, tame

verb

• censor, bowdlerize, blue-pencil, cut, edit, clean up, sanitize, make acceptable, make palatable, water down, tame
• bowdlerize, shorten, castrate, bowdlerise

Use "expurgate" in a sentence

1. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.

2. 13 synonyms for Bowdlerize: censor, cut, clean up, blue-pencil, expurgate, sanitize, censor

3. 13 synonyms for Bowdlerize: censor, cut, clean up, blue-pencil, expurgate, sanitize, censor

4. He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.

5. Bowdlerize: To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate.

6. Bowdlerize definition is - to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar

7. Synonyms for Bowdlerize include censor, expurgate, blue-pencil, clean up, cut, sanitise, sanitize, edit, launder and purge

8. Bowdlerize definition is - to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar

9. What does Bowdlerize mean? To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate

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11. I think I like shakespeare's expurgate poem best, and I often wish that He has confined himself entirely to that kind.

12. The ultimate objective of this article is to expurgate the research development of Chin's Academia from Malaysian Chinese Literature in the near 10 years.

13. BBC updates and Bowdlerizing hardly seem comparable yet to bowdlerize is to expurgate a text, to modify it; it also means to simplify and distort in style or content

14. Bowdlerise: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate Synonyms: bowdlerize , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

15. Other articles where Bowdlerize is discussed: Thomas Bowdler: The word Bowdlerize, current by 1838 as a synonym for expurgate and now used in a pejorative sense, remains his most lasting memorial.

16. Bowdlerize: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate “ bowdlerize a novel” Synonyms: Bowdlerise , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

17. Bowdlerize: 1 v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate “ Bowdlerize a novel” Synonyms: bowdlerise , castrate , expurgate , shorten Type of: abbreviate , abridge , contract , cut , foreshorten , reduce , shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

18. Bowdlerize - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "Bowdlerize a novel" bowdlerise , expurgate , castrate , shorten abbreviate , abridge , foreshorten , shorten , contract , reduce , cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

19. Abbreviate - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" abridge , foreshorten , shorten , contract , reduce , cut bowdlerise , bowdlerize , expurgate , castrate , shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

20. *Bowdlerize, also BrE & AusE *bowdlerise*.* To censor or expurgate a text after the style of Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), editor of an edition of Shakespeare [1]'s plays from which explicit sexual references and avowedly vulgar elements were removed: ‘When The Taming of the Shrew was staged in

21. Also UK: Bowdlerise [sth] ⇒ vtr transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat." (expurgate, censor [sth]) expurgar⇒ vtr verbo transitivo: Verbo que requiere de un objeto directo ("[b]di[/b] la verdad", "[b]encontré[/b] una moneda").