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expurging

expurging is the present participle and gerund 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 expurging

What is expurging the present participle and gerund of?
Expurging is the present participle and gerund of expurge.

Words near expurging in the dictionary

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

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