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#bowdlerise

Top Voted Definition for #bowdlerise

To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example). After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818, leaving out things like Ophelia's suicide (it was an accidental drowning, of course), and sanitizing Lady Macbeth's "Out, damned spot!" into to "Out, crimson spot!"

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Added on Feb. 9, 2013 by pantagruella

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