noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work wordnet

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abbreviationabridgmentbowdlerisationbowdlerizationbowdlerizationcancellation

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