verb
control, restrict, strike out, forbid, suppress, ban, withhold, enforce censorship, control the flow of news, inspect, oversee, abridge, cut, edit, edit out, examine, expurgate, bowdlerize, review, criticize, exert pressure, conceal, refuse transmission, prevent publication, kill, blacklist, throttle the press, debase freedom of speech, bleep, bleep out, blue-pencil, black out, stifle, stifle free expression; see also restrain 1.