bowdlerize

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This word comes from the name of an editor who toned down Shakespeare, for example making Ophelia's suicide an accident bowdlerize $2,000 DJ IN THE DICTIONARY 2025-05-22 #9339
A Victorian author who rewrote Shakespeare to be less offensive lent his name to this word meaning "to censor" bowdlerize $1,200 DJ IN THE DICTIONARY 2006-02-21 #4942
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