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verb
Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten.
is a specific kind of: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.
derivation: bowdlerisation, bowdlerization | castration, expurgation | bowdlerisation, bowdlerization | bowdleriser, bowdlerizer, expurgator | Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler.
Dutch: censureren, zuiveren, castigeren, kuisen
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