bowdlerize
see also: Bowdlerize
Pronunciation
Bowdlerize
Verb
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see also: Bowdlerize
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/
bowdlerize (bowdlerizes, present participle bowdlerizing; past and past participle bowdlerized)
- To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
- The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
- Ogilvy pursued his own topic. "I'm inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a matter of fact it was the expurgated Romeo and Juliet did the mischief. . . . All they left it was the moon and stars. And the balcony and ‘My Romeo!’"
- "Shakespeare is altogether different from the modern stuff. Altogether different. I'm not discussing Shakespeare. I don't want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare."
- "You don't say?"
- "Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: ‘Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.’"
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 455:
- His critics take alarm only when it becomes apparent that he would bowdlerize Homer and exclude from his state the great tragedians.
- French: censurer
- German: zensieren
- Italian: censurare
- Portuguese: censurar, expurgar
- Russian: цензури́ровать
- Spanish: censurar, expurgar
Bowdlerize
Verb
bowdlerize (bowdlerizes, present participle Bowdlerizing; past and past participle Bowdlerized)
- Alternative form of bowdlerize
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