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单词 bowdlerise
释义
bowdlerise
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v

WORD FAMILY
bowdlerise: bowdlerisation, bowdlerised, bowdleriser, bowdlerising
USAGE EXAMPLES
She added that “the diary has been bowdlerised, distorted, transmuted, reduced; it has been infantilised, Americanised, sentimentalised, falsified, kitschified, and, in fact, blatantly denied . . . ”
Newsweek(Feb 05, 2015)
It must, historically, have been the 1706 Grub Street version – not the bowdlerised Victorian editions.
The Guardian(Aug 04, 2014)
It's a pity the lyrics were bowdlerised, but you can't have everything.
The Guardian(Apr 11, 2013)
v edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Syn|Hyper
bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten
abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
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