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BOWDLERISE is validvalid
to bowdlerize [v BOWDLERISED, BOWDLERISES, BOWDLERISING]
to expurgate a book or writing, by removing whatever might be considered indelicate, esp. to do so unnecessarily, also BOWDLERIZE [v BOWDLERISED, BOWDLERISING, BOWDLERISES]