| VERBO | change | expurgar | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate |
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| Sentido | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate. | |
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| General | abreviar, acortar, compendiar, condensar, contraer, encoger, reducir, resumir, simplificar | Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
| Inglés | bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten | |
| Catalán | expurgar | |
| Nombres | Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler | English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825) |
| castración, censura, expurgación | The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work | |
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