expurgate

Verb

Meaning

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

Source: Webster's dictionary

shorten castrate bowdlerize bowdlerise cut clean eliminate cancel clarify purge delete shortening censor erase refine

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book allow damage break block decline

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cut reduce contract shorten abbreviate abridge

bowdlerize a novel Source: Internet