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bowdlerize |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. -- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. -- {Bowd"ler*ism}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bowdlerize v : edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: {bowdlerise}, {expurgate}, {shorten}]
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