Bowdlerize
Bowdlerize , transitive verb
[After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]
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.