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Found 2 items, similar to bowdlerize.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bowdlerize
bowdlerize
v : edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
“bowdlerize a novel” [syn:
bowdlerise,
expurgate,
castrate,
shorten]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bowdlerize
Bowdlerize
\Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Bowdlerized; p.
pr. & vb. n.
Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
Shakespeare in 1818.]
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts
considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts;
-- said of literary texts.
Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom
Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would
be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison.
[1913 Webster] --
Bowd`ler*i*za"tion, n. --
Bowd"ler*ism, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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