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词汇 expurgatory
释义 expurgatory
adjective
uk /ɪkˈspɜː.ɡə.tər.i/ us /ɪkˈspɝː.ɡə.tɔːr.i/
relating to the act of removing parts of a piece of writing that are considered likely to cause offence, or to a piece of writing that has had parts removed in this way:
They created an expurgatory list to be used by the church.
Translations of the text were frequently expurgatory.
having the power to remove or clean something that is considered harmful:
They strongly believed in the expurgatory power of fire.
Some of the patients believe that pain is expurgatory, and that painkillers will interfere with this.
Expurgatory censorship was often inefficient and ineffective.
The expurgatory indexes were created by the Spanish Inquisition.
This book examines how the expurgatory system affected many well-known texts.
He believed that the punishment served an expurgatory function.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and getting rid of things
abandonment
banish
be scattered to the four windsidiom
bin
cast someone/something aside/away/off
dumping
eradication
eradication of something
erase
erasure
evacuate
evacuate someone from something
shedding
shoo
shrug
shrug something off
shuck
sling
toss
turf

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