bowdlerize

Synonyms

Verb
1. bowdlerise
2. expurgate, castrate, shorten, abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce

Usage

Bowdler’s Return - City Journal

The Bowdlers Wanted to Clean Up Shakespeare, Not Become a Byword for Censorship - Smithsonian Magazine

Opinion | Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books - The Washington Post

Duchamp & his legacy - The New Criterion

Bowdlerized: 8 Famous Authors Whose Works Have Been Rewritten by Their Publishers - Mental Floss

Bowdlerizing Huck - Mother Jones

“Censure me in your wisdom”: Bowdlerized Shakespeare in the nineteenth century - Index on Censorship

Call a spade a spade, dammit; not a horticultural implement - WHYY

The Wonderful World Of Bowdlerized Films: 10 Of The Most Bizarrely Censored Movie Lines Ever - vocal.media

From fig leaves to ‘French Connection,’ the impulse to sanitize culture - The Christian Science Monitor

When the Privacy Button Is Already Pressed (Published 2012) - The New York Times

Why Now is the Perfect Time to Re-Read Fahrenheit 451 - ThoughtCo

Woke rewrites of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ Bond, other classics: foolish AND sinister - New York Post

Abridged novel versions not that bad - The Observer Media Ltd - Uganda Observer

Uncensored Left 4 Dead 2 goes on sale in Australia - Polygon.com

Should we rename historical artworks to avoid offence? - Dazed

No, Associated Press Did Not Report that Obama Was 'Kenyan-Born' - Snopes.com

Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You (Published 2011) - The New York Times

Five Most Popular Indonesian Folk Tales (and Their Subtexts) - Jakarta Globe

Roald Dahl Goes Woke: Famous Children’s Author’s Books Heavily Altered by ‘Sensitivity Readers’ - National Review

Bowdlerized: Steven Spielberg Edited the Guns Out of E.T. and Now He Regrets It - The Truth About Guns

Foreign Language Equivalents

Foreign Language Equivalents of 'bowdlerize'
Language	Equivalent		Language	Equivalent
French			Spanish

Misspellings - Typos

bowdlrize,   bpwdlerize,   bowdlerizze,   bowslerize,   bowdkerize,   bowdlerizr,   bowdelrize,   bowdleerize,   bowdlerze,   bowlderize,   bowdleroze,   bowflerize,   bowwdlerize,   obwdlerize,   boqdlerize,   bwdlerize,   bowdleriz,   bowderize,   bowdleeize,   bowdlwrize,   bowdleriize,   bowdlerie,   bodlerize,   bowdlreize,   bowlerize,   boowdlerize,   bowdlerizee,   bowdlerixe,   bowdletize,   bowdleruze,   bowdlorize,   biwdlerize,   bowdlrrize,   bodwlerize,   bowdlerzie,   nowdlerize,   bowd;erize,   bowdleriez,   bwodlerize,   bowddlerize,   boedlerize,   owdlerize,   vowdlerize,   bowdlerrize,   bowdlerizw,   bowdllerize,   bowdleize,   bbowdlerize,   bowdleirze

Words Starting with Letter - 'A'

a	a battery	a billion
a bit	a bit much	a capella singing
a cappella singing	a couple of	a few
a fortiori	a good deal	a great deal
a horizon	a hundred	a hundred and one
a hundred thousand	a hundred times	a kempis
a la carte	a la mode	a level
a little	a lot	a million

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