Usually means: Remove objectionable material from text.
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  1. expurgate: Merriam-Webster
  2. expurgate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expurgate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expurgate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expurgate: Vocabulary.com
  6. expurgate: Wordnik
  7. expurgate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expurgate: Wiktionary
  9. expurgate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expurgate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expurgate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expurgate: Dictionary.com
  13. Expurgate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. expurgate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. expurgate: Rhymezone
  16. Expurgate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. expurgate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. expurgate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. expurgate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. expurgate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. expurgate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. expurgate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expurgate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expurgate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. expurgate: A Word A Day
  2. expurgate: Idioms
  3. expurgate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expurgate)

verb:  (transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
verb:  (transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.

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