1. 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
   "The government censor removed several scenes from the film"
    
2. Someone who censures or condemns
   "The self-appointed censor criticized the artist's work as immoral"

1. Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
   "This magazine is censored by the government"
    
2. Forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
   "The school board censored several books from the library";
   - ban

Sounds like: sensor, censer

Derived forms: censors, censoring, censored

Type of: actor, appraise, apprise [Brit, archaic], apprize [archaic], assess, criminalise [Brit], criminalize, doer, evaluate, functionary, illegalise [Brit], illegalize, measure, official, outlaw, scope, valuate [N. Amer], value, worker

Encyclopedia: Censor