Usually means: Edited to remove offensive material.
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  1. bowdlerized: Merriam-Webster
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  5. bowdlerized: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Bowdlerized, bowdlerized: Wiktionary
  7. Bowdlerized, bowdlerized: Dictionary.com
  8. Bowdlerized: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. bowdlerized: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Expurgated, especially in a comprehensive way (such as systematically throughout an entire work).

Similar:
expurgate, shorten, Bowdlerise, comprehensive, exhaustive, thoroughsped, specified, broad, full-bore, in-depth, more...

Opposite:
uncensored, unexpurgated, uncut

Types:
expurgated, censored, sanitized, more...

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Similar:
expurgate, shorten, Bowdlerise, comprehensive, exhaustive, thoroughsped, specified, broad, full-bore, in-depth, more...

Opposite:
uncensored, unexpurgated, uncut

Types:
expurgated, censored, sanitized, more...



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