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Bowdlerize

Bowdlerize | Bowdlerized

Bowdlerize meaning

To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.

Example sentences (2)

When we restrict, censor or bowdlerize ideas and opinions, we compromise the mission of a university.

Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hollywoodize, Freudianism, and Reagonomics are capitalized; quixotic, bowdlerize, mesmerism, and pasteurization are not; aeolian, and alpinism may be capitalized or not.