expurge

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French expurger, from Old French espurgier, from Latin expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”). See expurgate. === Verb === expurge (third-person singular simple present expurges, present participle expurging, simple past and past participle expurged) (transitive, obsolete) To expurgate. === References === “expurge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == French == === Verb === expurge inflection of expurger: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative