expurgated

1. 1.

   having material deleted

   “at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions”

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Questions about expurgated

What does expurgated mean?

expurgated means "having material deleted".

How many syllables are in expurgated?

expurgated has 4 syllables: ex-pur-ga-ted. The stress falls on "pur".

Is expurgated a common word?

expurgated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.