Usually means: Designed to remove objectionable material.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word expurgatory:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. expurgatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. expurgatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expurgatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expurgatory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expurgatory: Wordnik
  6. expurgatory: Wiktionary
  7. expurgatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Expurgatory, expurgatory: Dictionary.com
  9. expurgatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Expurgatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. expurgatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. expurgatory: FreeDictionary.org
  13. expurgatory: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Expurgatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expurgatory: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Serving to expurgate.

Similar:
expurgatorial, expurgatorious, compurgatory, expiatorious, expiscatory, exorcised, excrementive, expediate, deprecatory, exanguious, more...

Opposite:
inflammatory, provocative, offensive, explicit, unfiltered

Types:
censorship, redaction, deletion, omission, editing, erasure, abridgment, blackout, more...

Phrases:
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Similar:
expurgatorial, expurgatorious, compurgatory, expiatorious, expiscatory, exorcised, excrementive, expediate, deprecatory, exanguious, more...

Opposite:
inflammatory, provocative, offensive, explicit, unfiltered

Types:
censorship, redaction, deletion, omission, editing, erasure, abridgment, blackout, more...

Phrases:
expurgatory index, more...



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