bowdlerized
adjective
(alsoBowdlerized);(UKusuallybowdlerised,Bowdlerised)uk/ˈbaʊd.lə.raɪzd/us/ˈboʊd.lə.raɪzd//ˈbaʊd.lə.raɪzd/(of abook,play,film, etc.) having had words orpartsthat areconsideredunsuitableoroffensiveremovedorchanged:
Hisaccountis neither a bowdlerizedversionof the pastnoraninventedone.
Audiences only got toexperiencetheworkinitsbowdlerisedform.
Thenovelwas notpublisheduntil 1950, and then in aheavilyBowdlerizedversion.
Opposite
unbowdlerized
- DH Lawrence'snovelwas, at thetime,bannedin the US in all but a bowdlerisedversion.
- I neverknewthat "geewhiz" and "jeeperscreepers" were bowdlerizedversionsof "Jesus".
- Still today, someschooleditionsof Shakespeare aredirectdescendantsof the Bowdlerisedtext.
Editing & compiling
- abridged
- anthologist
- blue pencil
- bowdlerization
- bowdlerize
- co-edit
- compile
- copy edit
- dub
- emend
- excerpt
- lexicographer
- non-editorial
- over-edit
- post-editing
- proofreading
- recension
- revised
- undubbed
- unfiltered
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Removing and extracting