The Victorians liked to bowdlerize Latin and Greek literature as they believed much of it was obscene and corrupted the young.

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.

ban.

Also: expurgate, cut, blue-pencil, bowdlerize

He bowdlerized my novel because he felt it was too explicit.