CENSOR
Scrabble letter values: C3E1N1S1O1R1 = 8
Definition
- verb forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). — synonyms: ban
- verb subject to political, religious, or moral censorship.
- noun someone who censures or condemns.
- noun 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.
Examples
- “This magazine is censored by the government”
- “The Ancient Roman censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.”
- “The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.”