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Bowdlerize Moderate

Bowdlerize has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

"bowdlerize a novel"

2

To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.

3

Alternative form of bowdlerize

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
abridge
Rhyming Words
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