Censor Definition

sĕnsər
censored, censoring, censors
noun
censors
An official with the power to examine publications, films, television programs, etc. and to remove or prohibit anything considered obscene, libelous, politically objectionable, etc.
Webster's New World
An official in time of war who reads publications, mail, etc. to remove information that might be useful to the enemy.
Webster's New World
One of two magistrates in ancient Rome appointed to take the census and, later, to supervise public morals.
Webster's New World
One that condemns or censures.
American Heritage
In earlier psychoanalytic theory, and still popularly, a part of the unconscious that serves as the agent of censorship.
Webster's New World
verb
censored, censoring, censors
To subject (a book, film, writer, etc.) to the close examination of a censor.
Webster's New World
To examine and expurgate.
American Heritage
To examine and expurgate.
American Heritage Medicine

To remove objectionable content.

Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance.
Wiktionary

To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.

The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Censor

Noun

Singular:
censor
Plural:
censors

Origin of Censor

  • Latin cēnsor Roman censor from cēnsēre to assess kens- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin cēnsor, from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).

    From Wiktionary

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