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.

to examine and act upon as a censor.

to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.

verb

allow , approve , endorse , permit , sanction

verb

abridge , blacklist , black out * , bleach , bleep , blue-pencil * , bowdlerize , clean up , conceal , control , cork * , criticize , cut , decontaminate , delete , drop the iron curtain , edit , examine , excise , expurgate , exscind , inspect , launder * , narrow , oversee , prevent publication , purge , purify , put the lid on , refuse transmission , repress , restrain , restrict , review , revile , sanitize , scissor out , squelch , sterilize , strike out , supervise communications , suppress , withholdnotes:to censor is to disallow portions or the entireties of books , plays , etc. on the grounds that they transgress propriety , \'to scrutinize , revise , or cut , \' expurgate or suppress; to censure is to criticize vehemently or harshly , or condemn , screen , ban , black out , hush , stifle , blip , blue-pencil , critic , edit out , forbid , interdict , muzzle , prohibit , proscribe , remove , withhold