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What does expurgate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To edit out rude, incorrect, offensive, useless, or otherwise undesirable information from a book, CD or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
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And that conviction of unworthiness was the deepest lesson I had been taught as a child, that I was the surrogate demon who was to act and sort of expurgate the demonic in my dad.
It is as if Rockwell had an inner Mr. Hyde whose noirish vision his Dr. Jekyll was always having to expurgate.
The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference.
If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses.
Therefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial.
One way to expurgate these frustrated dreams and fond notions is round the television.

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