Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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bowdlerisation | Yes | No | No | No |
castration | Yes | No | No | No |
bowdlerisation (noun) | castration (noun) |
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the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | neutering a male animal by removing the testicles |
written material that has been bowdlerized | surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men) |
the deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work |