Thesaurus / expurgate
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The resolutions of the loyalists were curiosities, and the secretary did not always expurgate bad spelling, etc.
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION IN ALABAMAWALTER L. FLEMINGWhy must Northern publishers expurgate and emasculate the literature of the world before it is permitted to reach them?
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2, DECEMBER, 1857VARIOUSThe dreamer sees a worshipper—his wife—enter, to palliate or expurgate her soul of some ugly stain.
THE BROWNING CYCLOPDIAEDWARD BERDOEHis speech was two or three words longer, but they are inappropriate at the end of a chapter, and I expurgate.
THE CAVALIERGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLEThey would expurgate it from their vocabulary if they could.
'BOY WANTED'NIXON WATERMANIf they were not there, les intellectuels of Athens could not expurgate them.
THE WORLD OF HOMERANDREW LANGIt is admitted that the poets did not in the same way "expurgate" the "Cyclic" epics.
THE WORLD OF HOMERANDREW LANGTherefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial.
AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED PRINCIPLES IS RENDERED THE GROUNDS FOR CHOOSING AND REJECTING EPIGRAMSPIERRE NICOLEHomer himself found such deeds in the tradition; and though he regards them with horror, he cannot expurgate them.
THE WORLD OF HOMERANDREW LANGHis principal object was to expurgate it from impurities and to supersede it by what he considered a more edifying text.
STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS (VOL II OF 2)JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDSWORDS RELATED TO EXPURGATE
- abridge
- black out
- blacklist
- bleach
- bleep
- bowdlerize
- clean up
- conceal
- control
- cork
- criticize
- cut
- decontaminate
- delete
- drop the iron curtain
- edit
- examine
- excise
- expurgate
- exscind
- inspect
- launder
- narrow
- oversee
- prevent publication
- purge
- purify
- put the lid on
- refuse transmission
- repress
- restrain
- restrict
- review
- revile
- sanitize
- scissor out
- squelch
- sterilize
- strike out
- supervise communications
- suppress
- withhold
- absterge
- bath
- bathe
- blot
- brush
- cauterize
- clarify
- cleanse
- clear the decks
- clear up
- deodorize
- depurate
- deterge
- disinfect
- do up
- dredge
- dust
- edulcorate
- elutriate
- erase
- expunge
- expurgate
- flush
- hackle
- launder
- lave
- mop
- neaten
- pick
- pick up
- polish
- purge
- purify
- rake
- rasp
- refine
- rinse
- rout out
- sanitize
- scald
- scour
- scrape
- scrub
- shake out
- shampoo
- soak
- soap
- sponge
- spruce up
- sterilize
- straighten up
- swab
- sweep
- tidy up
- vacuum
- wash
- whisk
- winnow
- wipe
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