Castrate
Castrate , transitive verb
[Latin castrarus, p; p. of castrare to castrate, asin to Sanskrit castra knife.]
1.
To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to alter.
2.
To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate.
My... correspondent... has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places.