bowdlerize

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb 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.

Similar words

expurgate bowdlerise shorten vulgarize devulgarise unvulgarize unvulgarise sanitize devulgarize vulgarise

Often followed by

the it and

Word family

bowdlerization bowdlerizations bowdlerized bowdlerizer bowdlerizers bowdlerizes bowdlerizing