Usually means: Removal of content deemed offensive.
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  1. expurgation: Merriam-Webster
  2. expurgation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expurgation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expurgation: Vocabulary.com
  5. expurgation: Wordnik
  6. expurgation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. expurgation: Wiktionary
  8. Expurgation, expurgation: Dictionary.com
  9. expurgation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Expurgation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Expurgation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. expurgation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. expurgation: Rhymezone
  14. Expurgation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. expurgation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. expurgation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expurgation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Expurgation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. expurgation: Legal dictionary

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  1. expurgation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expurgation)

▸ noun:  The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

Similar:
bowdlerization, bowdlerisation, purgation, expungement, purification, purifying, expiscation, excretion, expulsion, cleanse, more...

Opposite:
inclusion, retention, preservation

Adjectives:
such, much, moral, judicious, actual, thorough, careful, drastic, arbitrary, systematic, complete


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Similar:
bowdlerization, bowdlerisation, purgation, expungement, purification, purifying, expiscation, excretion, expulsion, cleanse, more...

Opposite:
inclusion, retention, preservation

Adjectives:
such, much, moral, judicious, actual, thorough, careful, drastic, arbitrary, systematic, complete



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