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Definition of expurgate : To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Synonyms:

launder, show, bowdlerise, red-pencil, shorten, demasculinise, abbreviate, reduce, demasculinize, abridge, spay, clean, emasculate, alter, castrate, include, screen, contract, bowdlerize, neuter, foreshorten

eradicate, erase, annihilate, cancel, edit, annul, eliminate, delete, censor, obliterate, cut, omit, strike, expunge

cleanse

Usage examples:

• She was warned to expurgate Prue or lose the others. - "In a Little Town", Rupert Hughes.