CENSOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does censor mean? 

• CENSOR (noun)
  The noun CENSOR has 2 senses:

1. someone who censures or condemns

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

  Familiarity information: CENSOR used as a noun is rare.

• CENSOR (verb)
  The verb CENSOR has 2 senses:

1. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

2. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

  Familiarity information: CENSOR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENSOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who censures or condemns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("censor" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

censorial (belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions)

censorious (harshly critical or expressing censure)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("censor" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Derivation:

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

censorial (belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions)

censorship (deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances)

• CENSOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they censor    ... he / she / it censors   
Past simple: censored   
Past participle: censored   
-ing form: censoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ban; censor

Hypernyms (to "censor" is one way to...):

criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

Domain category:

medium (an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "censor"):

embargo (ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue censor the movie

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

This magazine is censored by the government

Hypernyms (to "censor" is one way to...):

appraise; assess; evaluate; measure; valuate; value (evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "censor"):

blue-pencil; delete; edit (cut or eliminate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

censor (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)

 Context examples 

I'd like to censor it before it goes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)