blue-penciled

Blue-penciled is the past tense of blue-pencil, meaning to edit, censor, or delete portions of a text.

The term comes from the traditional use of blue pencils by editors to mark corrections and deletions on manuscripts, since blue marks wouldn't reproduce in older printing processes.

The studio blue-penciled several scenes before the film's release.

Her memoir was heavily blue-penciled by the publisher's legal team.

The word often implies censorship or heavy-handed editing rather than simple correction.