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noun
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: castration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deletion
Narrower terms: bowdlerization, bowdlerisation
History
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Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
