verb
- removes objectionable or offensive material from a book, text, or other work
Usage: formal; third person singular present tense
Examples
- The editor expurgates all profanity from the children’s version.
- She expurgates controversial passages before publication.
- The publisher expurgates content that might offend readers.
- He carefully expurgates any politically sensitive material.
- The school board expurgates books before adding them to the library.
- The translator expurgates culturally inappropriate references.