bowdlerize

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(Mr. Bowdler and Mr. de Sade, among others, had to wait until they were dead before bowdlerize or sadistic made it in.)

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  1. transitive verb To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).

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  • The majority strict governments currently have the technological way to bowdlerize the Internet. —  Shaister Miester Do Da
  • Alan Moore, the writer of the graphic novel Watchmen, accuses Hollywood, saying "they take an idea, bowdlerize it, blow it up, make it infantile and spend $100 million to give people a brief escape from their boring and often demeaning lives at work." these charges? —  Telegraph Blogs
  • (Mr. Bowdler and Mr. de Sade, among others, had to wait until they were dead before bowdlerize or sadistic made it in.) —  Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • (I primly bowdlerize.) —  NYT > Global Home
  • I have no wish to bowdlerize Sir Richard Steele, his ways and words. —  Essays
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  1. After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.
 

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