VERB
刪去，刪除（著作中有所冒犯或令人震驚之處）
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.
例句
He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.
在第二版中，他對書中內容進行了大幅刪減。