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bowdlerize definition

bowd·ler·ize (bo̵ud′lər īz′, bōd′-)

transitive verb bowdlerized -·ized′, bowdlerizing -·iz′·ing

to remove passages considered offensive from (a book, play, etc.)

Etymology: after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), Eng editor who (1818) published an expurgated Shakespeare

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