OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 10534

bowdlerize

/ˈbaʊd.ləˌɹaɪz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
censurar • expurgar
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
Mr. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. "There ought to be a Censorship of Books.[…]" Ogilvy pursued his own topic. "I'm inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a matte…
The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
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