scissor out

Thomas Jefferson went so far as to scissor out all the miracles from the Gospels to create his own story of Jesus.

Government censors scissor out any scenes of drinking, smoking or passionate kissing.

Lambert resolved, before accomplishing his projected wholesale destruction, to scissor out such incidents as were worth preserving, and to set up a scrap book; the main difficulty about this resolve lying in the formidable mass of matter from which he felt called upon to select.

He went on—higher and higher—now pausing to look down and smile at the sea of upturned faces below—and, in a moment of bravado, even daring to pause, and hanging on by one hand and one foot, "scissor out" his other limbs and wave a tiny flag which he carried.