expurgate

• vt. 刪除，刪去

ex-, 向外。purge, 清除，淨化。

expurgate

expurgate: see pure

expurgate (v.)

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.

1. He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.

他幾乎做的出出版華茲華斯作品的刪改本(潔本).

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2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.

刪節謙遜地刪節 ( 如一本書 )

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