Definition of bowdlerize in English:

bowdlerize

(British bowdlerise)

verb ˈbaʊdlərʌɪz

[with object]

Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective.
删节，删改（尤指删去书中不妥的地方后引起文章缺乏说服力）
every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized
Example sentencesExamples
- Spencer sees that modern astronomy's contempt for its mystically minded ancestor has required an acrobatic rewrite of history, in which the ideas of those of the past have been bowdlerised and suppressed.
- The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850.
- It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
- Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
- The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high.
- Is it that the artists really hate having their creative works bowdlerised and would resist signing contracts which would result in even wider distribution of the watered-down versions of their work?
- Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century.
- However, their voices have been lost; that is, their idiom and phraseology were bowdlerized by pious editors like Hibbins
- This early, healthy, and profoundly Christian apprehension has, of course, been bowdlerized by the pagan eco-spirituality crowd (which sees nature, not as a sacrament, but as a goddess).
- In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places.
- I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used.
- One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher.
- I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point.
- No, it wasn't ‘walk and chew gum’, it was ‘fart and chew gum’, as you well known; it was bowdlerised for popular consumption.
- After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’.
- Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated.
- I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten.
- The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.
- I'll confess I didn't realize how much his stuff got bowdlerized for the airwaves.
- They were not published until 1813 and a full, though bowdlerized, edition waited until 1898.
Synonyms
expurgate, censor, blue-pencil, cut, edit, redact
make cuts to, delete parts of, make deletions in
purge, purify, sanitize, make presentable, make acceptable, make palatable, water down, emasculate
informal clean up

Derivatives

bowdlerism

noun

This classic example of politically correct bowdlerism is not the end of the world, to be sure.
Example sentencesExamples
- So long as I am a school director I will raise my voice against bowdlerism, and censorship of any kind.
- Tales abound of Bacchanalian excess and Lost Weekends, and when the Lord's party convened at the clubhouse last month, they revelled in reminiscing without bowdlerism.
- This edition restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication.
- The maimed typefaces produced by this kind of drive-by bowdlerism are boring and never as useful as the ones they began as.

bowdlerization

nounbaʊdlərʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n

‘The music is a bowdlerisation of Handel's coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest,’ she says, which we presume is a bad thing.
Example sentencesExamples
- As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas.
- The only justification which can be advanced for such bowdlerisation is undeniable necessity, and this leads on to the third and last aspect of Harker's critique.
- But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era.
- But none of this comes close to making up for what is a standard made-for-television biography eviscerated by massive, inexcusable bowdlerization.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818, + -ize.

Definition of bowdlerize in US English:

bowdlerize

(British bowdlerise)

verb

[with object]

Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective.
删节，删改（尤指删去书中不妥的地方后引起文章缺乏说服力）
every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized
Example sentencesExamples
- I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used.
- They were not published until 1813 and a full, though bowdlerized, edition waited until 1898.
- Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century.
- Is it that the artists really hate having their creative works bowdlerised and would resist signing contracts which would result in even wider distribution of the watered-down versions of their work?
- Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated.
- I'll confess I didn't realize how much his stuff got bowdlerized for the airwaves.
- No, it wasn't ‘walk and chew gum’, it was ‘fart and chew gum’, as you well known; it was bowdlerised for popular consumption.
- The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.
- I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten.
- Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier.
- The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850.
- However, their voices have been lost; that is, their idiom and phraseology were bowdlerized by pious editors like Hibbins
- It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
- In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places.
- The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high.
- This early, healthy, and profoundly Christian apprehension has, of course, been bowdlerized by the pagan eco-spirituality crowd (which sees nature, not as a sacrament, but as a goddess).
- One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher.
- After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’.
- I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point.
- Spencer sees that modern astronomy's contempt for its mystically minded ancestor has required an acrobatic rewrite of history, in which the ideas of those of the past have been bowdlerised and suppressed.
Synonyms
expurgate, censor, blue-pencil, cut, edit, redact

Origin

Mid 19th century: from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818, + -ize.

词汇	bowdlerize
释义	Definition of bowdlerize in English: bowdlerize (British bowdlerise) verb ˈbaʊdlərʌɪz [with object] Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. 删节，删改（尤指删去书中不妥的地方后引起文章缺乏说服力） every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized Example sentencesExamples Spencer sees that modern astronomy's contempt for its mystically minded ancestor has required an acrobatic rewrite of history, in which the ideas of those of the past have been bowdlerised and suppressed. The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850. It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble. Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier. The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high. Is it that the artists really hate having their creative works bowdlerised and would resist signing contracts which would result in even wider distribution of the watered-down versions of their work? Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century. However, their voices have been lost; that is, their idiom and phraseology were bowdlerized by pious editors like Hibbins This early, healthy, and profoundly Christian apprehension has, of course, been bowdlerized by the pagan eco-spirituality crowd (which sees nature, not as a sacrament, but as a goddess). In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places. I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used. One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher. I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point. No, it wasn't ‘walk and chew gum’, it was ‘fart and chew gum’, as you well known; it was bowdlerised for popular consumption. After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’. Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated. I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten. The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself. I'll confess I didn't realize how much his stuff got bowdlerized for the airwaves. They were not published until 1813 and a full, though bowdlerized, edition waited until 1898. Synonyms expurgate, censor, blue-pencil, cut, edit, redact make cuts to, delete parts of, make deletions in purge, purify, sanitize, make presentable, make acceptable, make palatable, water down, emasculate informal clean up Derivatives bowdlerism noun This classic example of politically correct bowdlerism is not the end of the world, to be sure. Example sentencesExamples So long as I am a school director I will raise my voice against bowdlerism, and censorship of any kind. Tales abound of Bacchanalian excess and Lost Weekends, and when the Lord's party convened at the clubhouse last month, they revelled in reminiscing without bowdlerism. This edition restores Hardy's original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon the text on its initial publication. The maimed typefaces produced by this kind of drive-by bowdlerism are boring and never as useful as the ones they began as. bowdlerization nounbaʊdlərʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n ‘The music is a bowdlerisation of Handel's coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest,’ she says, which we presume is a bad thing. Example sentencesExamples As the example shows, bowdlerization is not only dishonest, it leads to dumbing down of language and ideas. The only justification which can be advanced for such bowdlerisation is undeniable necessity, and this leads on to the third and last aspect of Harker's critique. But the Hollywood treatment reflected the bowdlerization of the era. But none of this comes close to making up for what is a standard made-for-television biography eviscerated by massive, inexcusable bowdlerization. Origin Mid 19th century: from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818, + -ize. Definition of bowdlerize in US English: bowdlerize (British bowdlerise) verb [with object] Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. 删节，删改（尤指删去书中不妥的地方后引起文章缺乏说服力） every edition of his letters and diaries has been bowdlerized Example sentencesExamples I have been obliged to bowdlerise the exact words he used. They were not published until 1813 and a full, though bowdlerized, edition waited until 1898. Mistress Quickly's lines were severely bowdlerized in the 19th century. Is it that the artists really hate having their creative works bowdlerised and would resist signing contracts which would result in even wider distribution of the watered-down versions of their work? Forget that the sense of it being a fable is bowdlerized by the fact that almost none of the character action is fully motivated. I'll confess I didn't realize how much his stuff got bowdlerized for the airwaves. No, it wasn't ‘walk and chew gum’, it was ‘fart and chew gum’, as you well known; it was bowdlerised for popular consumption. The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself. I knew ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ was usually bowdlerised so that at least the heroine survived but in the version in this book she ended up eaten. Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier. The first intimations of serious trouble came from Trieste, where the censors savagely bowdlerised Stiffelio 1850. However, their voices have been lost; that is, their idiom and phraseology were bowdlerized by pious editors like Hibbins It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble. In 1979, he discovered that ‘some cubby-hole editors’ had bowdlerized his book in 98 places. The more subversive, high-functional sufferers of this syndrome can be quite funny, at least in the context of repressed and bowdlerized bourgeois institutions, like junior high. This early, healthy, and profoundly Christian apprehension has, of course, been bowdlerized by the pagan eco-spirituality crowd (which sees nature, not as a sacrament, but as a goddess). One wonders what other half-hidden catastrophes the draftsman might have included in nooks and crannies of the distant vistas, only to have them bowdlerized by his publisher. After his death, he remained a key figure, both lionized and bowdlerized by the regime, with statues and shrines set up to celebrate him as a ‘champion of the Party’. I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point. Spencer sees that modern astronomy's contempt for its mystically minded ancestor has required an acrobatic rewrite of history, in which the ideas of those of the past have been bowdlerised and suppressed. Synonyms expurgate, censor, blue-pencil, cut, edit, redact Origin Mid 19th century: from the name of Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818, + -ize.
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