Dictionary definition · censor
noun
- someone who censures or condemns
- 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
verb
- forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
- subject to political, religious, or moral censorship"This magazine is censored by the government"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).