expurgate 的定义
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.
expurgate 近义词
censor, cut
更多expurgate例句
- 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.