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bowdlerize

Synonyms

Verb

1. bowdlerise

2. expurgate, castrate, shorten, abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce

Usage
Bowdler’s Return - City Journal
The Bowdlers Wanted to Clean Up Shakespeare, Not Become a Byword for Censorship - Smithsonian Magazine
Opinion | Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books - The Washington Post
Duchamp & his legacy - The New Criterion
Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl - Book and Film Globe
Bowdlerized: 8 Famous Authors Whose Works Have Been Rewritten by Their Publishers - Mental Floss
“Censure me in your wisdom”: Bowdlerized Shakespeare in the nineteenth century - Index on Censorship
Don't Bowdlerize Balthus's Paintings—Or His Mystical Ideas - The New Republic
Women, Jobs and Charlie Kirk - Paul Krugman | Substack
Bowdlerizing Huck - Mother Jones
Bowdler's Day – Jul. 11, 2026 - National Today
Why Hollywood Owes a Debt of Gratitude to Gore Vidal (Appreciation) - The Hollywood Reporter
The Roald Dahl problem: Is it right to remove disturbing language from works of literature? - Star Tribune
"Spider-Man" Fails, "The New King of Comedy" Conquers - National Review
Fear and loathing in globalization - The Korea Times
When the Privacy Button Is Already Pressed (Published 2012) - The New York Times
Why Now is the Perfect Time to Re-Read Fahrenheit 451 - ThoughtCo
Israelis a literary ‘crime’, Obama’s secret gift to Tehran and other commentary - New York Post
Society of Magical Negroes’ title was meant to make people squirm, for their own good - Polygon.com
9 Historical Figures Whose Names Became Commonly Used Words - Mental Floss
Abridged novel versions not that bad - The Observer Media Ltd - Uganda Observer
Five Most Popular Indonesian Folk Tales (and Their Subtexts) - Jakarta Globe
THE HOSEA STORY BECOMES MUSICAL (Published 1971) - The New York Times
How Legendary Spy Novelist Frederick Forsyth Learned He’d Been ‘Bowdlerized’ - thefederalist.com
Woke rewrites of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ Bond, other classics: foolish AND sinister - New York Post
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'bowdlerize'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
bowdleirze,   bowdlerze,   bowdletize,   bowdlerie,   bowdlwrize,   boqdlerize,   bowdlerizw,   bowdelrize,   bowdlerrize,   boowdlerize,   bowdlorize,   bowdlrize,   bowdleeize,   bowflerize,   bowdlerzie,   bbowdlerize,   bwdlerize,   vowdlerize,   bowdlrrize,   bowdlreize,   bowslerize,   boedlerize,   obwdlerize,   bowdlerizee,   bowdlerixe,   bodwlerize,   bowlerize,   bowdleruze,   bowdleriez,   bowdleriize,   bowdleroze,   bwodlerize,   bowdllerize,   bowdkerize,   biwdlerize,   bowlderize,   bowwdlerize,   bowdleriz,   nowdlerize,   bowderize,   bowdleize,   bowdlerizr,   bodlerize,   bpwdlerize,   bowddlerize,   owdlerize,   bowdleerize,   bowd;erize,   bowdlerizze
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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