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The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous..
Use expurgation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Expurgation means The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous..
Common synonyms include bowdlerisation, bowdlerization.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use expurgation where its definition matches the intended context.
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