Bowdlerize /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing

1. To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.

   It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale.