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CENSOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship

Example:

This magazine is censored by the government

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

ban; censor

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

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