expurgar
Portuguese, verb/is.puʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
expurgar is spelled E-X-P-U-R-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 61,435th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expurgar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to expurgate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “limpar, purificar, eliminando as impurezas ou matérias estranhas”.
What does expurgar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to expurgate
- 2
to expunge
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. limpar, purificar, eliminando as impurezas ou matérias estranhas 2. livrar do que é nocivo ou imoral 3. limpar de erros ou falhas; corrigir 4. retirar a casca de; descascar, esburgar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of expurgar
- expurgo first-person present singular
- expurguei first-person preterite singular
- expurgado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- expurgares infinitive second-person singular
- expurgarmos first-person infinitive plural
- expurgardes infinitive plural second-person
- expurgarem infinitive plural third-person
- expurgando gerund
- expurgados masculine participle past
- expurgada feminine participle past
- expurgadas feminine participle past
- expurgas indicative present second-person
- expurga indicative present singular
- expurgamos first-person indicative plural
- expurgais indicative plural present
- expurgam indicative plural present
- expurgava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expurgar?
- Brazil /is.puʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.puɦˈɡa(h)]
- Brazil /es.puʁˈɡa(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to expurgar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expurgar in Portuguese?
expurgar appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).