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How to pronounce bowdlerize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten
Type of abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
Derivation bowdlerization, bowdlerizer


bowdlerize a novel.

Examples of bowdlerize

bowdlerize
Or it might bowdlerize the Internet as we know it.
From the sfgate.com
A place to carefully calibrate, sanitize and bowdlerize our words for every possible audience, now and forever.
From the online.wsj.com
What Lytro has done with this new product is show light-field photography in its purest state, making it hard to dismiss or bowdlerize.
From the gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
Censorship is so repugnant to most moviemakers they would rather have Mondo Freudo shown in a kindergarten than let a censor bowdlerize Ulysses.
From the time.com