Difference between Shorten and Bowdlerize

SHORTEN vs BOWDLERIZE: VERB

Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.

To become short or shorter.
To take in (a sail) so that less canvas is exposed to the wind, thereby reducing speed.
To add shortening to (dough) so as to make flaky.
To make short or shorter.
To reduce in force, efficacy, or intensity.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract
To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
To take in the slack of it.
To reduce sail by taking it in.

To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate.
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.

To deprive.
To cause to come short or fail.
To make short or friable, as pastry with butter or lard.
To pronounce or measure as short: as, to shorten a vowel or syllable.
To take in; contract; lessen in extent or amount: as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance.
Figuratively, to make inefficient or incapable. Compare short-armed.
To make appear short: as, pleasant companionship shortens a journey; a concave mirror shortens the face.
To check; confine; restrain.
To come short; fail.
To make anything short: used with in in the nautical phrase to shorten in on the cable, to heave in short or shorter.
To become short or shorter; contract; diminish in length: as, ropes shorten when wet.
To make short or shorter; abridge; curtail: as, to shorten hours of work; to shorten the skirt of a dress.

To expurgate in editing by expunging words or passages considered offensive or indelicate.

Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Bowdlerize, Bowdlerise, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Vulgarise, Traducingly, Elide, Anglicize, Unexpurgated, Mistranslate, Abridge, Reword, Censor, Bastardize, Expurgatory, Expurgator, Shorten, Expurgate, Bowdlerise

Minimize, Reducing, Interrupt, Lessen, Expedite, Improve, Streamline, Accelerate, Expurgate, Contract, Abridge, Foreshorten, Cut, Abbreviate, Reduce

Americanize, Censorable, Metaphrase, Redact, Traducingly, Elide, Anglicize, Unexpurgated, Abridge, Reword, Censor, Bastardize, Expurgatory, Shorten, Expurgate