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bowdlerize vt. 删除猥亵的文句,任意删改 删除猥亵的文句,任意删改 bowdlerize v 1: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; " bowdlerize a novel" [ synonym: { bowdlerize}, { bowdlerise}, { expurgate}, { castrate}, { shorten}] Bowdlerize \ Bowd" ler* ize\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bowdlerized}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Bowdlerizing}.] [ After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts. Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. -- F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Bowd` ler* i* za" tion}, n. -- { Bowd" ler* ism}, n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 50 Moby Thesaurus words for " bowdlerize": abbreviate, abridge, bleach, blot out, blue- pencil, cancel, censor, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, cross out, cut, delete, delouse, depurate, deterge, dry- clean, dust, dust off, edit, edit out, erase, expunge, expurgate, freshen, kill, lustrate, omit, purge, purify, reform, rescind, rub out, scavenge, spruce, steam- clean, strike, strike off, strike out, sweep out, sweeten, tidy, void, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up
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