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- verb Alternative form of
bowdlerize .
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Examples
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He is in fact one of the few writers of real eminence who have been forced to Bowdlerise themselves.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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Bowdlerise one of the best-known British sea-shanties.
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