Monday, January 14, 2013

Bowdlerize

Bowdlerize (bohd-luh-rahyz) v. - to censor, expurgate, clean up

To be used in place of "censor," "water down," etc.

 
 

Many of the parents objected to a bowdlerized version of Huck Finn on the basis that works should be read as they were written. 

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