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Definition
to remove or suppress anything considered obscene, immoral, or politically unacceptableor:
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.
- It's all there, nothing censored.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind ... official censors, judges, and executors.Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451
- 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
- I'm told our letters aren't censored yet, but may be at any time.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- 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
- Newspapers were censored and some were closed down, for security reasons they said.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- When he was feeling good, free of self-censor, he tried for coherence with Kit.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- 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
- 14 The Pennsylvania Council of Censors journals have more specifics.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
censored = removed something considered politically unacceptable
censored = removed as unacceptable
censors = people who remove or suppress anything considered immoral or politically unacceptable
censored = suppressed (didn't allow to say)
censored = edited to remove anything authorities consider objectionable