To bowdlerise a piece of writing, is to edit it to make it more "suitable" for women and children - that is to change or remove sexual references and "bad" language.
It is named after Thomas Bowdler, who produced "The Family Shakespeare" in 1807, to ridicule from many quarters. Using bowdlerise: Using "God!" as an exclamation was bowdlerised by replacing it with "Heavens!"
To bowdlerize is to remove parts of literary works. An example sentence would be: It would be offensive to bowdlerize a Shakespeare work.
Some people with strong moral beliefs bowdlerize questions and answers on this site, which they believe to be indecent. Attempts were made to bowdlerize the story to remove its references to drug addiction, which the editors thought would hurt its public appeal.
The Victorians liked to bowdlerize Latin and Greek literature as they believed much of it was obscene and corrupted the young.
He bowdlerized my novel because he felt it was too explicit.
ban. Also: expurgate, cut, blue-pencil, bowdlerize
Can you use the word concluding in a sentence? Done.
You can use the word Truss in a sentence like this.
Just use it! Or do you mean, can you use the word beheld in a sentence.
Cleanse is the odd word because it is not about "cutting off" something.
How do you use the word decibel in a sentence?What is decibel used for?
Since that is not a word I would not attempt to use it in a sentence.
You just did use the word colonize in a sentence.