bowdlerize

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈbaʊd.ləˌɹaɪz/    美 /ˈbaʊd.ləɹˌaɪz/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. transitive
    — The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.

词形变化

bowdlerizes present,singular,third-person bowdlerizing participle,present bowdlerized participle,past bowdlerized past Bowdlerize alternative bowdlerise alternative Bowdlerise alternative

词源

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 expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”
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