Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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; to remove morally objectionable parts;
-- said of literary texts.
Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom
Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would
be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison.
[1913 Webster] -- {Bowd`ler*i*za"tion}, n. --
{Bowd"ler*ism}, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowdlerize
v 1: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
"bowdlerize a novel" [syn: {bowdlerize}, {bowdlerise},
{expurgate}, {castrate}, {shorten}]
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