expurgate from

expurgate (something) from (something)

To remove content that may be deemed objectionable from something, such as a book or show. I'm sure they've expurgated all the racy scenes from the movie if they're showing it on basic cable. When we were in middle school, we all wanted to read that steamy book, but someone had expurgated all the sex scenes from the copy we checked out of the library. I want to read this book as D.H. Lawrence wrote it, but it seems that censors have expurgated all "inappropriate" content from this version.

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expurgate something from something

to cleanse something by removing something. (Often refers to editing objectionable material from written or broadcast material.) They expurgated the most graphic passages from the novel. We will expurgate the offensive matter from the article.

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