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expurged

expurged is the simple past and past participle of expurge.

Meaning of expurge

Verb

expurge (third-person singular simple present expurges, present participle expurging, simple past and past participle expurged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To expurgate.
    • perfected those catalogues and expurging indexes1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC

Questions about expurged

What is expurged the simple past and past participle of?
Expurged is the simple past and past participle of expurge.

Words near expurged in the dictionary

  1. expurgator
  2. expurgatorial
  3. expurgators
  4. expurgatory
  5. expurge
  6. expurged
  7. expurges
  8. expurging
  9. expwy
  10. expwys
  11. expy

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