sanitize
sa·ni·tize
verb
2.
make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
- “sanitize a document before releasing it to the press”
- “sanitize history”
- “sanitize the language in a book”
Origin
From sanitary. By surface analysis, sanity + -ize.
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