bowdlerize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

   We bowlderised the film.

From Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818, he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”

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