Matter removed that was thought to be objectionable
Expurgated means to have "cleaned up" language in a writing. It's kind of like erasing the bad words before printing a book...or what supervisors do here on this site. "WikiAnswers always tries to have expurgated answers." "The book 'Valley of the Dolls' had an expurgated version to read in high school."
expurgate means to remove from a book or text , The writings of the female Prophets were expurgated from the old texts . if you write somthing that your editors or lawyers dont like the will be expurgated from the transcripts
"Fahrenheit 451" has been expurgated due to its content on censorship and critique of society, which some deemed controversial or inappropriate. This has led to certain versions of the book being edited or censored to remove certain themes or language that may be considered offensive or disturbing to some readers.
To expurgate is to remove something that is undesirable from either a book or a bank account. For example, "Many people want to let children read an expurgated version of Tom Sawyer".
That is the correct spelling of "censored" (expurgated, edited for language).(A censer is a holder for burning incense.)
abridged, expurgated, fractional, fragmentary, garbled, half-done, immature, imperfect, insufficient, lacking, meager, part, partial, sketchy, unaccomplished, unconsummated, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unpolished
I want you to expunge all references to John Walker, also known as Agent 008, from the official record of this incident."Joey asked the court to expunge his criminal conviction so that he didn't have to list it on his job applications."
To edit severely, so as to avoid offense to the most fastidious, after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor of an extremely expurgated edition of Shakespeare. Bowdler would not suffer 'legs' nor 'breast', but substituted 'limb' and 'chest' to the point of obscurity of meaning, much less sense.
Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale, and later as one massive volume, by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale on November 14, 1851.
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You can 'book' a reservation.
Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London on October 18, 1851 in an expurgated three-volume edition titled The Whale, and later as one massive volume, by New York City publisher Harper and Brothers as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale on November 14, 1851.