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Bowdlerization

nounid 15413·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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Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bowdlerisation
plural
Bowdlerizations
possessive
Bowdlerization's
pluralpossessive
Bowdlerizations'

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
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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