Expurgate: alternatives and connections

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

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The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

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The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

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To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.

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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.