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