English > expurgate: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | They won't expurgate the story |
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| Synonyms | bowdlerize, bowdlerise, castrate, shorten |
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| Broader | abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
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| Nouns | expurgation | the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |
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| expurgator | a person who edits a text / text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages |