censor
noun
1. someone who censures or condemns
Definition categories: person, individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul
2. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
Definition categories: person, functionary, official
Sentences with censor as a noun:
- The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
verb
1. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Similar word(s): ban
Definition categories: social, criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw
2. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
- This magazine is censored by the government
Definition categories: cognition, appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value
Sentences with censor as a verb:
- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance