expurger
French, verb/ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/
expurger is spelled E-X-P-U-R-G-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 108,277th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expurger is a French verb meaning “to expurgate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Corriger un livre en supprimant les expressions qui blessent l’honnêteté, et aussi ce qui pourrait choquer…”.
What does expurger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expurgate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Corriger un livre en supprimant les expressions qui blessent l’honnêteté, et aussi ce qui pourrait choquer les opinions reçues.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of expurger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- expurgeant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- expurgé participle past
- expurge first-person indicative present
- expurges indicative present second-person
- expurgeons first-person indicative plural
- expurgez indicative plural present
- expurgent indicative plural present
- expurgeais first-person imperfect indicative
- expurgeait imperfect indicative singular
- expurgions first-person imperfect indicative
- expurgiez imperfect indicative plural
- expurgeaient imperfect indicative plural
- expurgeai first-person historic indicative
- expurgeas historic indicative past
- expurgea historic indicative past
- expurgeâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expurger?
- /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/
- \ɛks.pyʁ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is expurger in French?
expurger appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).