bowdlerizing

bowd·ler·ize (b

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tr.v. bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es

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

[After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]

bowdler·ism n.

bowdler·i·zation (-l

-z

n) n.

bowdler·izer n.

bowdlerize, bowdlerise [ˈbaʊdləˌraɪz]

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (tr) to remove passages or words regarded as indecent from (a play, novel, etc.); expurgate

[after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare]

bowdlerization , bowdlerisation n

bowdlerizer , bowdleriser n

bowdlerism n

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Verb

bowdlerize - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"

bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten

abbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"

bowdlerize

verb censor, cut, clean up, blue-pencil, expurgate, sanitize She had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.

Translations

bowdlerize [ˈbaʊdləraɪz] VT [+ book] → expurgar

bowdlerize [ˈbaʊdləraɪz] bowdlerise (British) vt → expurger

bowdlerize

vt book → von anstößigen Stellen säubern, reinigen; a bowdlerized version → eine zensierte Ausgabe

bowdlerize [ˈbaʊdləˌraɪz] vt → espurgare

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abbreviate abridge Black bowdlerisation bowdlerise bowdlerism bowdlerization castrate censor contract cut eponym Eponymic expurgate foreshorten literature mutilate piece of writing reduce	Dear editor, Having served in the Royal Navy, circled the globe twice by sea and seen the magnificence and fury of Biscay and Cape Horn, I sympathize with your readers who deplore the bowdlerizing of the seafarers' hymn, Eternal Father (September and October letters). New version moves me by Proudman, Colin / Anglican Journal LaBute's new film, The Shape of Things, follows a pair of college students, Adam (Paul Rudd) and Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), whose romance begins in the college art museum, where he's working as a security guard when she arrives, can of spray paint in hand, to deface a male statue whose genital-covering fig leaf she loathes for its bowdlerizing propriety. Birds & bees: 'down with love,' 'the shape of things,' & 'blue car'. ... by Cooper, Rand Richards / Commonweal Significant figures of the period make appearances in the play, including John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the Oxford dons whose aesthetic ideas would so influence Housman's generation; Oscar Wilde; Benjamin Jowett, the conservative and bowdlerizing classicist; and Henry Labouchere, the liberal politician whose notorious amendment to the British Criminal Law of 1885 would provide the grounds for Wilde's imprisonment a decade later. A Stropshire Lad on the Great White Way by ELLENZWEIG, ALLEN / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide	bow wave bow weight bow window bow wood Bow-bells Bow-compass bow-legged Bow-pen Bow-pencil Bow-saw bow-tie bow-wow Bowable Bowbell Bowbent bowdacious Bowditch Bowdler bowdlerisation bowdlerise bowdleriser bowdlerism bowdlerization bowdlerize bowdlerizer bowdlerizing bowed bowed down bowed stringed instrument bowel bowel movement Boweled Bowell Bowelless bowels Bowen Bowen's reaction series Bowenite bower bower actinidia Bower bird Bower cable Bower-Barff process bowerbird Bowery Bowess bowfin bowfront Bowge Bowgrace bowhead	Bowditch, Henry Pickering Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowdler Bowdler, Thomas Bowdleria punctata bowdlerisation bowdlerisation bowdlerise bowdlerise bowdlerised bowdlerised bowdleriser bowdlerises bowdlerises Bowdlerising Bowdlerising Bowdlerism Bowdlerism bowdlerisms bowdlerisms bowdlerization bowdlerization bowdlerize bowdlerize bowdlerized bowdlerized bowdlerizer bowdlerizer bowdlerizes bowdlerizes bowdlerizing Bowdock Bowdoin Colege Bowdoin College Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets Bowdoin Historic Preservation Committee Bowdoin International Music Festival Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge Bowdoin Random Access Device :-) Bowdoin Street Health Center Bowdoin, James bowed bowed bowed bowed bowed bowed and scrape bowed and scrape bowed and scrape bowed and scrape bowed down bowed knee bowed knee bowed knee Bowed legs Bowed legs bowed out bowed out bowed out bowed out bowed roof

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Dear editor, Having served in the Royal Navy, circled the globe twice by sea and seen the magnificence and fury of Biscay and Cape Horn, I sympathize with your readers who deplore the bowdlerizing of the seafarers' hymn, Eternal Father (September and October letters).

New version moves me by Proudman, Colin / Anglican Journal

LaBute's new film, The Shape of Things, follows a pair of college students, Adam (Paul Rudd) and Evelyn (Rachel Weisz), whose romance begins in the college art museum, where he's working as a security guard when she arrives, can of spray paint in hand, to deface a male statue whose genital-covering fig leaf she loathes for its bowdlerizing propriety.

Birds & bees: 'down with love,' 'the shape of things,' & 'blue car'. ... by Cooper, Rand Richards / Commonweal

Significant figures of the period make appearances in the play, including John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the Oxford dons whose aesthetic ideas would so influence Housman's generation; Oscar Wilde; Benjamin Jowett, the conservative and bowdlerizing classicist; and Henry Labouchere, the liberal politician whose notorious amendment to the British Criminal Law of 1885 would provide the grounds for Wilde's imprisonment a decade later.

A Stropshire Lad on the Great White Way by ELLENZWEIG, ALLEN / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

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