bowdlerize (verb)

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• bowdlerize — I verb censor, curtail, cut, cut out, delete, edit out, emasculate, eviscerate, excise, expunge, expurgate, extirpate, remove associated concepts: censorship, freedom of speech II index censor, expurg …   Law dictionary

• bowdlerize — (also bowdlerise) ► VERB ▪ remove indecent or offensive material from (a text). ORIGIN from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754 1825), an American who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare …   English terms dictionary

• bowdlerize — verb /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/ To remove 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 …   Wiktionary

• bowdlerize — verb the English translation was bowdlerized beyond recognition Syn: expurgate, censor, blue pencil, cut, edit; purge, sanitize, water down; informal clean up …   Thesaurus of popular words

• bowdlerize — [[t]ba͟ʊdləraɪz, AM bo͟ʊd [/t]] bowdlerizes, bowdlerizing, bowdlerized VERB (disapproval) To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it. [V n] Mark Twain s wife was so prudish she felt it necessary… …   English dictionary

• bowdlerize — UK [ˈbaʊdləraɪz] / US [ˈbaʊdləˌraɪz] verb [transitive] Word forms bowdlerize : present tense I/you/we/they bowdlerize he/she/it bowdlerizes present participle bowdlerizing past tense bowdlerized past participle bowdlerized to remove the parts of… …   English dictionary

• bowdlerize — transitive verb ( ized; izing) Etymology: Thomas Bowdler died 1825 English editor Date: 1836 1. to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar 2. to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content •… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bowdlerize — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To examine (material) and remove parts consic ered harmful or improper for publication or transmission: censor, expurgate, screen. See INCLUDE, SHOW …   English dictionary for students

• bowdlerize — bowd|ler|ize [ baudlə,raız ] verb transitive to remove the parts of a book, movie, or play that are likely to offend people, with the result that it is no longer very good ╾ bowd|ler|ized adjective …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• bowdlerize — [19] In 1818 Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), an English editor, published his Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of the plays ‘in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family’. This and …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• bowdlerize — or bowdlerise baʊdlərʌɪz verb remove from (a text) material regarded as improper or offensive. Derivatives bowdlerism noun bowdlerization noun Origin C19: from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare …   English new terms dictionary