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Definition

to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptable

or:

a person who does such suppression

The Chinese devote enormous resources to censoring the Internet.

censoring = suppressing everything considered politically unacceptable

The performer chose Bombay as a good word to rhyme with today, but India's Central Board of Film Certification censored the word and replaced it with a beep.

censored = removed (something considered politically unacceptable)

It's all there, nothing censored.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

censored = removed as unacceptable

They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind ... official censors, judges, and executors.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

censors = people who destroy information considered politically unacceptable

Because I was unsure of my own adult voice and often censored myself, I made up another voice, Esperanza's, to be my voice and ask the things I needed answers to myself-
Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street

censored = suppressed (didn't allow to say)

I'm told our letters aren't censored yet, but may be at any time.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

censored = edited to remove anything authorities consider objectionable

There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

censorship = suppression of information or entertainment

Ma said that all letters from Hawaii would be censored; soldiers would read his letter and cross out any information that could help the enemy.
Lauren Tarshis -- I Survived: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
I didn't censor information for her benefit; surely, Thomas Stone was no longer the threat he'd once been to her when we were minors.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He was editor, reporter, censor, factotum of the paper.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
There was no mail to censor as the ship was in Cherenkov drive.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
The censor will soon be after us.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
In other words, censored books.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The letter had been opened by the censors—held by them, too: the postmark was over a week old.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
When he was feeling good, free of self-censor, he tried for coherence with Kit.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
Liberated from censorship and the need to be inventive, they proceeded cautiously.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
They give you the paper and pen, and they don't censor.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Lawrence, for instance, had numerous novels suppressed and undertook a monumental battle with the British censors.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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