expurgate
ex = out from, purgare = to cleanse
verb: to remove material that is considered to be objectionable from a written document
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Its first known use was in 1678. It evolved from a permutation of the latin verb purgare, meaning to cleanse, and originally referred to general purification.
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related ideas
- censorship
- banned books
- the government
- SOPA
- bowdlerization
- black lists