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Definition: Expurgation |
ExpurgationNoun1. The deletion of all passages considered to be indecent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "expurgation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Etymology: Expurgation \Ex`pur*ga"tion\, noun. [Latin expression expurgatio justification, excuse: compare to the French expression expurgation.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ExpurgationSynonyms: bowdlerisation (n), bowdlerization (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Expurgation |
| English words defined with "expurgation": Bowdlerism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Expurgation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (expurgation), Swedish (expurgation). |
| "Expurgation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Expurgation" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "expurgation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shuarje (cancellation, effacement, erasure, evanescence, extinction, obliteration, quenching, shutdown, suppression, wane, withering). (various references) | |
Arabic | تهذيب (breeding, cultivation, culture, discipline, edification, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, retouch, revision, sublimation, urbanity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цензуриране, задраскване (defacement, deletion). (various references) | |
French | expurgation. (various references) | |
German | säuberung (cleaning, mopping up). (various references) | |
Greek | κάθαρση (quarantine), αποκάθαρση. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megtisztítás (clearance), átfésülés. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | expurgationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | expurgação (purge), purificação (abstersion, catharsis, cleaning, comb-out, deputation, lustration, purgation, purification, refinement, renovation, sweetening). (various references) | |
Russian | вычеркивание (obliteration). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | očišćenje (catharsis). (various references) | |
Spanish | expurgación, borradura (abatement, cancellation, deletion, effacement, erasure, obliteration). (various references) | |
Swedish | expurgation, utrensning (purge). (various references) | |
Turkish | temizleme (clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, purgation, purge, purification, sweep, wipe), sansür (blue pencil, censorship, news blackout). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | викреслювання (cancel, cancellation, deletion, effacement), очищення (abstersion, calcination, clarification, cleaning, clearance, defecation, depuration, elimination, evacuation, filtering, purgation, purge). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sàng lọc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "expurgation": expurgations. (additional references) | |
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"Expurgation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epuration, exporation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: exporting, operating, purgation, uptearing. | |
-3 letters: atropine, erupting, eruption, expiator, outrange, reputing, retaping, retaxing, tapering, trouping, uprating. | |
-4 letters: atropin, autoing, gaunter, genitor, goutier, granite, gratine, groupie, ingrate, ingroup, negator, operant, opuntia, orating, outearn, outgain, outgrin, outrage, outrang, outring, painter, parting, perigon, pertain, petunia, pignora, pirogen, pirogue, pointer, portage, porting, pouring, poutier, pouting, prating, pronate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-t-u-x" | |
+1 letter: expurgations. | |
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