Bowdlerize Definition

bōdlə-rīz, boud-
bowdlerized, bowdlerizes, bowdlerizing
verb
bowdlerized, bowdlerizes, bowdlerizing
To remove passages considered offensive from (a book, play, etc.)
Webster's New World
Alternative form of bowdlerize.
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Origin of Bowdlerize

  • After Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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