... modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten] Merriam Webster's transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Etymology ... Thomas Bowdler died 1825 English editor Date: 1836 1. to expurgate (as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar ... noun • bowdlerizer noun Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr. (also -ise) expurgate (a book etc.). Derivatives: bowdlerism n. bowdlerization n. Etymology: T ... who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered ... dry-clean, dust, dust off, edit, edit out, erase, expunge, expurgate, freshen, kill, lustrate, omit, purge, purify, reform, rescind, rub out ...
... dangerous except in the expurgated versions" Webster's 1913 Dictionary Expurgate Ex"pur*gate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated ... noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see expurgate
... modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten] 3: remove the testicles of a male animal ... objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I ...
... espurger to clean out, purge, from Latin expurgare — more at expurgate Date: 14th century any of a family (Euphorbiaceae) of widely ... e]purge, from OF. espurgier to purge, L. expurgare. See Expurgate, Purge.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia ...
... EX'PURGATING, ppr. Purging; cleansing; purifying. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Expurgate Ex"pur*gate (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expurgated ... noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.