expurgation

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
{i} cleansing or purification
expurgate
To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge

The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.

expurgate
If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people. He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. = censor + expurgated ex·pur·gat·ed It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version
expurgate
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
expurgate
{f} purify; censor, remove that which is offensive
expurgate
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book
expurgation
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