bowdlerize

v. நாணத்தக்க பகுதியைப் புத்தகத்தினின்று நீக்கு, புத்தகத்தை வெட்டிக்குறை.

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Bowd"ler*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] Defn: To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive. It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowlderized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. F. Harrison. -- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion (#), n. --Bowd"ler*ism (#), n.

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