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verb - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
To expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.
To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
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| Cut, in a way |
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| Jan 11 2014 Newsday.com |
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| A Victorian author who rewrote Shakespeare to be less offensive lent his name to this word meaning "to censor" |
| To prudishly edit vulgar bits out of a written work is called this, after a guy named Thomas who did it to Shakespeare |
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| To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example). |
| remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. |
| edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
| to remove words or parts from a book, play, or film that are considered to be unsuitable or offensive: |
| Remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. |
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Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship which involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work, or other type of writing of media. * The term bowdlerization is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in order to make them more suitable for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. * A fig-leaf edition is such a bowdlerized text, deriving from the practice of covering the genitals of nudes in classical and Renaissance statues and paintings with fig leaves. |