Definitions for "Bowdlerize"
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
To expurgate a book. After Thomas Bowdler, an English physician (1754-1825) who published editions of Shakespeare and others in which he removed "those words and expressions ... which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family". C.E. see B.C.E.
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"