expurgate

The resolutions of the loyalists were curiosities, and the secretary did not always expurgate bad spelling, etc.

Why must Northern publishers expurgate and emasculate the literature of the world before it is permitted to reach them?

The dreamer sees a worshipper—his wife—enter, to palliate or expurgate her soul of some ugly stain.

His speech was two or three words longer, but they are inappropriate at the end of a chapter, and I expurgate.

They would expurgate it from their vocabulary if they could.