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What does bowdlerize mean?

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  1. To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
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If such answers are speech, then any government efforts to regulate Google, like any efforts to bowdlerize Ann Landers, must be examined as censorship.
The only sensitivity, say the gallery owners, is to depictions of the female body, and the painters generally bowdlerize their work to be on the safe side.
This, by now, is a tediously predictable scenario in contemporary theater: Take a rich classic, bowdlerize it and replace powerful content with humdrum tricks.
The more you attempt to bowdlerize words, the more you will have anxiety to know them.
There is no desire to bowdlerize Rabelais, but it is not always best to translate his grosser words by their apparently direct English equivalents.
I have no wish to bowdlerize Sir Richard Steele, his ways and words.

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