Another word for censor
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Verb
To examine (material) and remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication or transmission
- A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.
- One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide:
- A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.
- To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
- To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate.
To keep from being published or transmitted
- To put an end to forcibly; subdue:
- To curtail or prohibit the activities of:
- To keep from being revealed, published, or circulated:
- To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
- To keep in or hold back; repress:
- To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
- To make silent or quiet.
- To calm; soothe.
- To keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of. Often used with up :
- To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.
- (figuratively) To censor or cover up.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.
- To prohibit (an action) or forbid the use of (something), especially by official decree:
- To refuse to allow (someone) to do something, go somewhere, or be a participant; exclude:
- Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.
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Another word for censor
Noun
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- To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration:
- To hear and decide on in a court of law:
- To pass sentence on; condemn.
- One who is appointed or employed to inspect something.
- A police officer ranking next below superintendent.
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Verb
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- To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example).
- To keep in or hold back; repress:
- To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate.
- To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.
- (figuratively) To censor or cover up.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.
- To edit, revise, or correct with or as if with a blue pencil.
- A brief high-pitched sound, as from an electronic device.
- To emit a bleep or bleeps.
- To edit out (spoken material) from a broadcast or recording, especially by replacing with an electronic sound:
- A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
- To place on or as if on a blacklist.
- To put to death:
- To deprive of life:
- To put an end to; extinguish:
- To keep from being observed or discovered; hide.
- To find fault with:
- To judge the merits and faults of; analyze and evaluate:
- To act as a critic.
- To look over, study, or examine again:
- To consider retrospectively; look back on:
- To examine with an eye to criticism or correction:
- To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example); expurgate.
- To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication.
- To observe carefully or critically; inspect:
- To study or analyze:
- To test or check the condition or health of:
- To remove before publication or broadcasting (as an editorial decision).
- To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- To prepare an edition of for publication:
- To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable:
- To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
- To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever:
- To sever the edges or ends of; shorten:
- To reduce the length of (a written text); condense:
- To limit; curtail:
- To watch over and direct; supervise.
- To examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws.
- To review or examine officially:
- To refrain from giving or granting:
- To keep in check; restrain:
- To deduct (withholding tax) from an employee's salary.
- To prohibit (an action) or forbid the use of (something), especially by official decree:
- To refuse to allow (someone) to do something, go somewhere, or be a participant; exclude:
- Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.
- To put an end to forcibly; subdue:
- To curtail or prohibit the activities of:
- To keep from being revealed, published, or circulated:
- To command (someone) not to do something:
- To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit:
- To have the effect of preventing; preclude:
- (figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted.
- (intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date.
- To keep or confine within physical limits:
- To prevent or prohibit beyond a certain limit or by restriction:
- To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct:
- To adjust to a requirement; regulate:
- To hold in restraint; check:
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