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EXPURGATION
Definition of EXPURGATION
noun
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
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Other senses
EXPURGATION carries 3 further meanings.
noun
The act of purging or cleansing, or the state of being purged or cleansed; a cleansing; purification from anything obnoxious, offensive, or erroneous; specifically, the removal, as in an edition of a book, of what is offensive from the point of view of morals or religion.
noun
In astronomy, the emerging of the sun or moon from eclipse, beginning with the cessation of the total or annular phase (or with the middle of the eclipse if this is partial) and ending with the cessation of the partial phase. See eclipse.
noun
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, EXPURGATION · 1 relative in the game
EXPURGATION in a sentence
“For example, if you’re asked if you’ve ever been convicted, when do you still have to say “yes” (because it * did* happen), and when can you answer no since the expurgation is supposed to let you pretend it never happened?”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EXPURGATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 73 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 65, 24 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 65, 24 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EXPURGATION starts with E and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AEGINOPRTUX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start EXPURGA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found EXPURGATION?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 65 - and most players walked straight past it.
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