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bowd⋅ler⋅ize

  [bohd-luh-rahyz, boud-]
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–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
Also, especially British, bowd⋅ler⋅ise.

Origin:
1830–40; after Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), English editor of an expurgated edition of Shakespeare

Related forms:
bowd⋅ler⋅ism, noun
bowd⋅ler⋅i⋅za⋅tion, noun
bowd⋅ler⋅iz⋅er, noun
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bowdlerize 
1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, "in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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