expurgo
Portuguese, verb
expurgo is spelled E-X-P-U-R-G-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 41,886th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expurgo is a Portuguese verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of expurgar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does expurgo mean in English?
verb
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first-person singular present indicative of expurgar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ato ou efeito de expurgar 2. afastamento de pessoas por não aceitarem doutrinas políticas ou religiosas de seu grupo
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.
How common is expurgo in Portuguese?
expurgo appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).