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censor
[ sen-ser ]
noun
- an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- an adverse critic; faultfinder.
- (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
- (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.
verb (used with object)
- to examine and act upon as a censor.
- to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.
censor
/ ˈsɛnsə; sɛnˈsɔːrɪəl /
noun
- a person authorized to examine publications, theatrical presentations, films, letters, etc, in order to suppress in whole or part those considered obscene, politically unacceptable, etc
- any person who controls or suppresses the behaviour of others, usually on moral grounds
- (in republican Rome) either of two senior magistrates elected to keep the list of citizens up to date, control aspects of public finance, and supervise public morals
- See superegopsychoanal the postulated factor responsible for regulating the translation of ideas and desires from the unconscious to the conscious mind See also superego
verb
- to ban or cut portions of (a publication, film, letter, etc)
- to act as a censor of (behaviour, etc)
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Derived Forms
- censorial, adjective
- ˈcensorable, adjective
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Other Words From
- censor·a·ble adjective
- cen·so·ri·al [sen-, sawr, -ee-, uh, l, -, sohr, -], cen·sori·an adjective
- anti·cen·sori·al adjective
- non·censored adjective
- over·censor verb (used with object)
- pre·censor verb (used with object)
- re·censor verb (used with object)
- un·censor·a·ble adjective
- un·censored adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of censor1
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Example Sentences
The studio seemed to be satisfied with the results—although still opted to censor the death sequence in many foreign territories.
Still, was it possible that Russian authorities could censor the Internet and make Meduza inaccessible for Russian readers?
The attempts to censor news in Mainland China about the protests backfired.
Activists still have to reach the site on their own, escaping efforts to censor or monitor the internet in their home countries.
Should the company censor conversations around such gun photographs, banning talk of a sale or a price?
I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
And that treatise of Van de Water, the Belgian, on the sublimation of the sub-conscious by the negation of the self-censor.
The Government Film Censor interprets his role chiefly as one of guiding parents.
It is not part of the censor's duty to see that his rulings are observed.
His very appointment as censor was due to the bottle-acquaintance that had sprung up with the regent Prince of Wales.
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