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bowdlerizes

bowdlerizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowdlerize.

Meaning of bowdlerize

Verb

bowdlerize (third-person singular simple present bowdlerizes, present participle bowdlerizing, simple past and past participle bowdlerized)

  1. (transitive) 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.

Verb capitalized: Bowdlerizes

Bowdlerizes

  1. (indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of Bowdlerize

Questions about bowdlerizes

What is bowdlerizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bowdlerizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bowdlerize.
What part of speech is bowdlerizes?
Bowdlerizes is a verb.

Words near bowdlerizes in the dictionary

  1. bowdlerizations
  2. bowdlerize
  3. bowdlerized
  4. bowdlerizer
  5. bowdlerizers
  6. bowdlerizes
  7. bowdlerizing
  8. Bowdoin
  9. Bowdoinham
  10. Bowdoins
  11. Bowdon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowdlerizes (page history and authors); Bowdlerizes (page history and authors); bowdlerize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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