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bowdlerize(verb) Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. Synonyms: expurgate, sanitizeUsage: The publisher refused to bowdlerize the classic novel, so the school board voted to place it on the district's banned books list.
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bowdlerize
(verb) Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
Synonyms: expurgate, sanitize
Usage: The publisher refused to bowdlerize the classic novel, so the school board voted to place it on the district's banned books list.
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A made-up word Quote: named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818 he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”
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