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bowdlerizer
verb
(bowd-ler-ize)
to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
bowdlerizer
verb
(bowd-ler-ize)
to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
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bowdlerizer
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expurgator
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expurgatory
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apocopate
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censor
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bastardize
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traducingly
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abridge
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emender
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anglicize
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elide
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apocope
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euphemize
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curtailer
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metaphrase
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mistranslate
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tushery
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misinterpreter
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whitewasher
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detruncate
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recut
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reword
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redact
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censorable
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ad verbum
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vulgate
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satirizer
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americanize
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emendator
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comstockery
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apocopation
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unexpurgated
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sentimentalize
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traducible
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absolver
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romanize
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maligner
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stemmatics
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versionist
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retranslate
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dehorter
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abbreviate
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vulgarise
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vulgarize
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demasculinize
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latinize
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copyread
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transliterate
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emendate
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represser
,
translation
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rewrite
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anglicise
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metagraphy
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secularize
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expletively
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desecrater
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misrepresenter
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gadzookery
,
version
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fictionalize
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brachygrapher
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obsoletism
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paraphrase
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heterography
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decurt
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abbreviature
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mythologization
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truncate
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mistranslation
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rework
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semiquote
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vulgarism
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unabbreviated
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whittle down
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loan translation
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superseder
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chop down
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omit
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traduce
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prefacer
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perissological
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tendentiously
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dumb down
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decarbonizer
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dispreader
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shorten
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transprose
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stenotopic
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contact print
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parablepsis
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euphemistic
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demythologize
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sensationalistic
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heterographic
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word for word
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misword
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jargonize
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disbase
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abater
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misquote
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bowdlerizer
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