expurgated 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 "expurgated" in a sentence

1. 15 He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.

2. Synonyms for Bowdlerized include censored, expurgated, blue-pencilled, blue-penciled, cleaned up, cut, sanitised, sanitized, edited and laundered

3. For this reason he expurgated the bards original texts-or Bowdlerised them-thus introducing a new word into the english language.bowdlers FAMILY SHAKESPEARE

4. Since then, the act of editing or removing offensive content has been deemed "Bowdlerizing" and it has taken place many times.Huck Finn Expurgated And Other Censored Books (PHOTOS)

5. This page shows answers to the clue Bowdlerization, followed by 2 definitions like “A later editor's censorship of sexuality”, “Written material that has been bowdlerized” and “The practice of censorship by publication of expurgated texts

6. While there have been many Abridgements and expurgated editions of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published over the years to make this classic American story accessible to younger readers, and some of these editions are actually for sale in our museum bookstore, they can only be viewed as a prelude to the way that all mature American

7. As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for school-boys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more Brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment, than it is by the occurrence of crime.