bowdlerize Definition

bowdlerize
bowdlerise
verb

bowdlerized, bowdlerizing
1. To remove passages or words from (a book or play, etc), especially on moral and social rather than aesthetic grounds; to expurgate, especially in an unnecessary or distorting way.

Derivative: bowdlerism
noun

Derivative: bowdlerization
noun

Derivative: bowdlerized
adj

Etymology: 19c: named after Dr T Bowdler (1754‐1825), who published an expurgated Shakespeare in ten volumes in 1818.