LekhoriLekhoriTo remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.
Alternative form of bowdlerize.
From Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818, he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and ex...
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