bowdlerize

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• UK: /ˈbaʊd.ləˌɹaɪz/
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• US: /ˈbaʊd.ləɹˌaɪz/
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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.”

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: censurere — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Dutch: censureren — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Dutch: kuisen — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Esperanto: cenzuri — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Finnish: sensuroida — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Finnish: bowdlerisoida — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• French: censurer — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• French: expurger — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• German: zensieren — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Hungarian: cenzúráz — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Hungarian: meghúz — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Icelandic: (to expurgate) ritskoða — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Italian: censurare — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Japanese: 伏字 (fuseji) — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Japanese: 伏せ字 (fuseji) — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Norwegian Bokmål: sensurere — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Norwegian Bokmål: forskjønne — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Polish: cenzurować — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Polish: ocenzurować — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Polish: ugrzeczniać — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Polish: ugrzecznić — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Portuguese: censurar — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Portuguese: expurgar — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Russian: цензури́ровать (cenzurírovatʹ) — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Russian: вымарывать (vymaryvatʹ) — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Spanish: censurar — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive
• Spanish: expurgar — to remove or alter parts of a text considered offensive