1) Abbreviate 2) Abridge 3) Bowdlerise 4) Castrate 5) Contract 6) Desex the text 7) Expurgate 8) Foreshorten 9) Reduce 10) Shorten 1) Bowdlerise 2) Censor 3) Edit 4) Expurgate 
• (v. t.) To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.
(from the article `Bowdler, Thomas`) Although criticized for tampering with Shakespeare`s text, Bowdler deserves credit for making the plays known to a wide audience. The word ...
To censor or alter an earlier writer's work. See discussion under bowdlerization, above.
Bowd'ler·ize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bowdlerized ; present participle & verbal noun Bowdlerizing .] [ After Dr. Thomas Bowdler , an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818...
[v] - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bowdlerise verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; `bowdlerize a novel`
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
[SAT terms] edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate