verb
- Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.
- usage: "bowdlerize a novel"
- synonyms: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten
adjective
- Having material deleted.
- usage: "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
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