Usually means: Censoring content for perceived offensiveness.
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  1. bowdlerizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. bowdlerizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bowdlerizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. bowdlerizing: Wordnik
  5. bowdlerizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Bowdlerizing, bowdlerizing: Wiktionary
  7. bowdlerizing: Dictionary.com
  8. Bowdlerizing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bowdlerizing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bowdlerizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bowdlerizing: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bowdlerize)

verb:  (transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
verb:  Alternative form of bowdlerize [(transitive) To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.]
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