All bowdlerise synonyms
bowd·ler·ize
B b noun bowdlerise
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
- censorship — Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
verb bowdlerise
- hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hacking — a rack for drying food, as fish.
- exscind — (medicine, surgery) To cut out.
- censor — If someone in authority censors letters or the media, they officially examine them and cut out any information that is regarded as secret.
- mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- expurgate — Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from (a book or account).