expurgate

English

WOTD – 1 August 2006    

Etymology

From Latin expurgātus, perfect passive participle of expurgō (“cleanse thoroughly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛks.pɚ.ɡeɪt/

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Verb

expurgate (third-person singular simple present expurgates, present participle expurgating, simple past and past participle expurgated)

1. (transitive) To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.

   The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.

Derived terms

• expurgator
• expurgatory
• expurgatorious

See also

• bowdlerise

Translations

to cleanse, to purge

• French: expurger (fr)
• Indonesian: ralat, meralat

• Kurdish: pak kirin (ku), paqij kirin (ku)
• Romanian: expurga (ro)
• Spanish: expurgar (es)

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Latin

Participle

expurgāte

1. vocative masculine singular of expurgātus