GRE vocabulary
Expurgate
To remove objectionable material from a text or account.
Example
"Before the book was published for a younger audience, the editor had to expurgate several violent passages."
Etymology
From Latin expurgat- 'cleansed,' from expurgare 'cleanse out, purify.'
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