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bowdlerizing

bowdlerizing is the present participle and gerund 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: Bowdlerizing

Bowdlerizing

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Bowdlerize

Questions about bowdlerizing

What is bowdlerizing the present participle and gerund of?
Bowdlerizing is the present participle and gerund of bowdlerize.
What part of speech is bowdlerizing?
Bowdlerizing is a verb.

Words near bowdlerizing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bowdlerizing (page history and authors); Bowdlerizing (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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