📚 Bowdlerize, verb. 🔉 /ˈbaʊdlərʌɪz/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. ❗️ Examples: 1. Every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized. 2. Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier. 3. In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places. 4. Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century. 5. The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic