EXPURGATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work

Synonyms:

castration; expurgation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("expurgation" is a kind of...):

deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expurgation"):

bowdlerisation; bowdlerization (the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent)

Derivation:

expurgate (edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate)