BOWDLERIZE Synonyms

• someone who censures or condemns

• a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable

• forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)

• subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

• someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication

• formulate in a particular style or language

• prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

• make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing

• make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

• a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction

• deprive of strength or vigor

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

• remove the testicles of a male animal

• remove the ovaries of

• make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• make short or shorter

• become short or shorter

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate