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10 letters · 25 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
originFrom Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818, he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- blowzier 22
- blowzed 22
- obelized 20
- blowze 20
- zebroid 19
- obelize 18
- zowee 17
- zowie 17
- dozier 16
- zeroed 16
- bezel 16
- bezil 16