<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>expurgated</li><li>expurgating</li><li>to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>bowdlerize</li><li>purge</li><li>censor</li><li>excise</li><li>delete</li></ul><p><strong>Definition</strong></p><ul><li>to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.</li></ul>