Expurgateverb
(transitive) To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
‘The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.’;
Bowdlerizeverb
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
‘The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.’;
Expurgateverb
(transitive) To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.
‘The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.’;
Bowdlerizeverb
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; - said of literary texts.
‘It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale.’;
Expurgateverb
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
Bowdlerizeverb
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
‘bowdlerize a novel’;
Expurgateverb
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
‘bowdlerize a novel’;
