0 past simple and past participle of bowdlerize --
1 to remove words or parts from a book, play, or film that are considered to be unsuitable or offensive: --
Both are highly selected and heavily bowdlerized.
Most parents considered the bowdlerized popular cover versions more palatable for the mass audience of parents and their children.
Some critics thought the film bowdlerized the book, and it was not commercially successful.
It is a well-known example of military acronym slang, though it is sometimes bowdlerized to "all fouled up" or similar.
No wonder, either, that the text's occasionally coarse language was bowdlerized.
