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Noun: bowdlerizer
  1. A person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages
    "Thomas Bowdler was a famous bowdlerizer"
    - expurgator, bowdleriser [Brit]

Derived forms: bowdlerizers

See also: bowdlerize

Type of: editor, editor in chief

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