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expurgate (verb), expurgates; expurgated; expurgating
1. To remove, cut out, delete, censor, or to remove passages considered obscene or otherwise objectionable from a book, a magazine, a newspaper, a movie, or a TV program: The editor expurgated several passages from the book before it was published by a well-known author.
2. Etymology: from Latin, expurgat-, "thoroughly cleansed"; from ex-, "out" + purgare, "to cleanse".
To cleasnse of somethiing morally harmful.
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To clear whatever is offensive.
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