Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - bowdlerize
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Bowdlerize
bowdlerize
(bowdlerizes, bowdlerizing, bowdlerized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'bowdlerise' To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it. I’m bowdlerizing it–just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won’t be upset. ...a bowdlerised version of the song. VERB: V n, V-ed c darkgreen]disapproval
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v.tr. (also -ise) expurgate (a book etc.). Derivatives bowdlerism n. bowdlerization n. Etymology: T. Bowdler (d. 1825), expurgator of Shakesp. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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also -ise BrE v to remove the parts of a book, play etc that you think are offensive, and actually ruin it by doing this - bowdlerized adj (a bowdlerized version of `Antony and Cleopatra') - bowdlerization n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare which could "with propriety be read aloud in a family." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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