| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb expurgate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (expurgate) | 1. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.[Wordnet]. 2. To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: expurgating, expurgated, expurgates, expurgator, expurgators, expurgatingly and expurgatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXPURGATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXPURGATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Purging; cleansing; purifying.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of expurgate. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
