湖边社【每日一词】bowdlerize - vt. to remove words or parts from a book, play, or film that are considered to be unsuitable or offensive（对不适宜或具有冒犯性的内容进行）删节，删改
Definition: transitive verb
1 literature : to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
bowdlerize the text
2 : to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content
Synonyms
censor,clean (up),expurgate,launder,red-pencil
Examples of bowdlerize in a Sentence
1 The version of the play that I saw had been horribly bowdlerized.
2 a bowdlerized version of “Gulliver's Travels” that purportedly makes it unobjectionable for children
3 Congress and the president must counter the forces that seek to diminish, exploit or bowdlerize our understanding of this terrible and confounding un-American event. —James Reston Jr., Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021