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Bowdlerisation

nounid 15414·updated May 18, 2026
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the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent

polysemous

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Variants

synonym
bowdlerization
plural
Bowdlerisations
possessive
Bowdlerisation's
pluralpossessive
Bowdlerisations'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent
§2
written material that has been bowdlerized

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