bowdlerize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bowdlerize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bowdlerize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowdlerize v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" Synonym(s): bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowdlerize \Bowd"lerize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowdlerized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowdlerizing}.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison. -- {Bowd`leriza"tion}, n. -- {Bowd"lerism}, n.