Third person singular present tense of bowdlerize; the action of removing offensive content from a work.
Present tense form of bowdlerize, adding the -es suffix to match third-person singular subjects (he/she/it).
When someone bowdlerizes a classic novel, they're making a choice about what's 'appropriate'—but these choices often tell us more about the censor's era than about the original work.
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