Expurgate synonyms
ĕk'spər-gāt'
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To erase, delete, or strike out:
Purify means to make something clean or free from impurities.
To treat with a regimen intended to remove impurities and promote health:
To remove passages considered offensive from (a book, play, etc.)
censor (related)
To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
To emit a bleep or bleeps.
(Politics, slang) To use a line-item veto
To remove the ovaries of (a female); spay.
To remove, especially from printed or written matter; delete.
To eliminate; delete:
To destroy the strength or force of; weaken
To kill or otherwise get rid of (such individuals)
To separate, conceal, shelter, or protect, with or as with a screen
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allow (antonym)
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
permit (antonym)
To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for. [from 15th c.]
include (related)
To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.
show (related)
Show is defined as to bring into view, teach, or display.
Alternative form of bowdlerize.
Shorten is defined as to reduce in length, to roll in sail canvas or to add shortening to a pastry.
abridge (related)
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abridgement (related)
unrevised (related)
Find another word for expurgate. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for expurgate, like: expunge, purify, cleanse, bowdlerize, censor, bleep, blip, blue-pencil, castrate, dele and edit.
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