bowdlerise

Questions about bowdlerise

What does bowdlerise mean?

bowdlerise means "edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate".

How many syllables are in bowdlerise?

bowdlerise has 3 syllables and divides as bowd-le-rise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bowdlerise?

Close synonyms include bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bowdlerise a common word?

bowdlerise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.