bowdlerize
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Apparently, to bowdlerize Coco Chanel, elegance really has been refusal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018
To bowdlerize Benjamin Franklin, in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and Arsenal finishing in the top four.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2017
The rush to bowdlerize what Biden had said turned a glancing tap of the bruise into a grinding fist.
From Slate • May 9, 2012
Ives managed to talk 20th Century-Fox out of tampering with The Blue-Tail Fly, though he did have to bowdlerize his other favorite, Foggy, Foggy Dew, an old Irish ballad.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is called "expurgating" the book; but people who disapprove often call it to bowdlerize.
From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)
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