Usually means: Edit content to remove offensive material.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Bowdlerize:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowdlerize: Merriam-Webster
  2. bowdlerize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bowdlerize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bowdlerize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bowdlerize: Vocabulary.com
  6. bowdlerize: Wordnik
  7. bowdlerize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bowdlerize, bowdlerize: Wiktionary
  9. bowdlerize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bowdlerize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bowdlerize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bowdlerize, bowdlerize: Dictionary.com
  13. bowdlerize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bowdlerize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. bowdlerize: Rhymezone
  16. bowdlerize: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. bowdlerize: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bowdlerize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. bowdlerize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. bowdlerize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. bowdlerize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowdlerize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowdlerize: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowdlerize: A Word A Day
  2. bowdlerize: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bowdlerize)

verb:  (transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
verb:  Alternative form of bowdlerize [(transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.]

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