expurgate

1. V-T 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. (作品出版前因考量內容尺度而做的)刪減[正式]

He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. 在第二版中，他大幅刪減了該作品。

2. expurgatedADJ

It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version. 它於1914年首次以大幅刪減過的版本發行。