1620s, "to purge" (in anatomy), back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify." Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger. Meaning "remove (something offensive or erroneous) from" is from 1670s.
双语例句
1. He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.
他几乎做的出出版华兹华斯作品的删改本(洁本).
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2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.
