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expurgated

verb , past tense of expurgate

Synonyms and Antonyms of expurgated

to remove objectionable parts from

the newspaper had to expurgate the expletive-laden speech that the criminal made upon being sentenced to life imprisonment

Synonyms of expurgated

bowdlerized, censored, cleaned (up), laundered, red-penciled

Words Related to expurgated

cleansed, purged, purified

abbreviated, blue-penciled, edited, shortened

bleeped, blipped, cut (out), deleted, excised, expunged, gutted, x-ed (out) (also x'd (out))

blacked out, repressed, silenced, suppressed

censured, condemned, denounced

examined, reviewed, screened, scrutinized

Near Antonyms of expurgated

approved, authorized, sanctioned

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