- bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
--1 is one way to abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun bowdlerisation1, noun bowdlerisation2, noun Bowdler1
They won't bowdlerise the story