VERB 删去,删除(著作中有所冒犯或令人震惊之处) If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people. 删去,删除(著作中有所冒犯或令人震惊之处) [formal]
He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. [VERB noun]