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Bowdlerize
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To alter the text of a literary work by changing or omitting objectionable words or passages. Derived from the name of Thomas Bowdler who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare. Synonymous with expurgate.
See also: censorship and unexpurgated edition.