having material deleted; "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions
an expurgated book, play etc has had some parts removed because they are considered harmful or offensive (past participle of expurgare, from purgare; PURGE)
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. He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. = censor + expurgated ex·pur·gat·ed It was first published in 1914 in a highly expurgated version