Defenition of the word expurgation

• Defenition of the word expurgation

  • the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent
  • the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

Synonyms for the word expurgation

• • bowdlerisation
  • bowdlerization
  • control
  • cutting
  • editing
  • restriction
  • suppression

Similar words in the expurgation

• • expurgation
  • expurgation's
  • expurgations

Hyponyms for the word expurgation

• • bowdlerisation
  • bowdlerization

Hypernyms for the word expurgation

• • deletion

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