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Definition of Bowdlerize
1. Verb. Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. "They won't bowdlerize the story "; "Bowdlerize a novel"
Generic synonyms: Abbreviate, Abridge, Contract, Cut, Foreshorten, Reduce, Shorten
Derivative terms: Bowdler, Bowdlerisation, Bowdlerisation, Bowdleriser, Bowdlerization, Bowdlerization, Bowdlerizer, Castration, Expurgation, Expurgator
Definition of Bowdlerize
1. v. t. To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.
Definition of Bowdlerize
1. Verb. To remove those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowdlerize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowdlerize
Literary usage of Bowdlerize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"To bowdlerize. — To expurgate, in editing a book, all such words and passages as are
... 47), "shall dare, for me, to curtail my Chaucer, to bowdlerize my ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"It is one thing to bowdlerize for a special purpose ; quite another to bowdlerize
by omissions what is meant to be a standard text (as Dr Mitchell for the ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"... and that is that Gibbon authorized his proposed French translator to ' '
bowdlerize ' ' the famous chapters on the rise of Christianity. ..."
4. The Sewanee Review by University of the South (1896)
"It is on the other hand a very clumsy monastic effort to bowdlerize what in its
original form was a work of vivid poetic imagination, but wholly without ..."
5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... spec, bowdlerize. extemporaneous, a. 1. extemporized, unpremeditated, spontaneous,
extempore, improvised, improvisatory, improvisator- ical (rare), ..."
6. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1914)
"He must have often said to himself, "She wouldn't bowdlerize the Bible in the
interests of the drawing-room." And the constant repetition of a phrase like, ..."
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