bowdlerize

(bo̵ud′lər īz′, bōd′-)

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

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

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See bowdlerize in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es

To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).

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Origin: After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818

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