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expurgate

/ek-sper-geyt/US // ˈɛk spərˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈɛkspəˌɡeɪt) //

删去,删节,删减,删去了

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing.

    • : to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
    • : to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

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Examples

  • The resolutions of the loyalists were curiosities, and the secretary did not always expurgate bad spelling, etc.

  • Why must Northern publishers expurgate and emasculate the literature of the world before it is permitted to reach them?

  • The dreamer sees a worshipper—his wife—enter, to palliate or expurgate her soul of some ugly stain.

  • His speech was two or three words longer, but they are inappropriate at the end of a chapter, and I expurgate.

  • They would expurgate it from their vocabulary if they could.