bowdlerize

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

To receive an R rating, the entire movie was bowdlerized because it contained so much violence and grotesque subject matter.

The above excerpt, “Hamlet,” illustrates how such lingual poverty might bowdlerize the legacy of poetry.

His actions did spawn the term "bowdlerize," which means to gut a work of literature.

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