Bowdlerize

An eponym meaning to expurgate or edit text or speech, removing material considered improper or offensive, with the connotation that the text or speech has been weakened, hence the adjective bowdlerized meaning censored or weakened. Dates from the mid-18th century, after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) who published The Family Shakspeare (sic) in 1818, an expurgated edition considered fit for women and children of that era.