Definitions for censors

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censors cen·sor

Spelling: [sen-ser]

IPA: /ˈsɛn sər/

Censors is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in censors (cenorss).

Definitions for censors

noun

1. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
2. any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
3. an adverse critic; faultfinder.
4. (in the ancient Roman republic) either of two officials who kept the register or census of the citizens, awarded public contracts, and supervised manners and morals.
5. (in early Freudian dream theory) the force that represses ideas, impulses, and feelings, and prevents them from entering consciousness in their original, undisguised forms.

verb (used with object)

1. to examine and act upon as a censor.
2. to delete (a word or passage of text) in one's capacity as a censor.

Origin of censors

1525-35; Latin cēnsor, equivalent to cēns(ēre) to give as one's opinion, recommend, assess + -tor -tor; -sor for *-stor by analogy with derivatives from dentals, as tō

Examples for censors

The Internet is the one and only uncensored place left on the earth.

He is the bestselling author of The Commission: The uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation.

And they ran their first uncensored broadcast on February 18, only one day after the nationwide protests began.

This is the story of Argive Helen, not an uncensored bulletin from the trenches.

The author of uncensored Celebrities is far too modest when he calls his new work a “sketch.”

Christopher Bray on a new book that presents the famed director at his uncensored maddening best.

But because the power of those clothes to communicate something unvetted and uncensored is irresistible.

Within the realm of human interaction in the only uncensored medium known, a different political experience is taking shape.

It was dramatic and funny and hilarious and uncensored and real and intense.

At Psamatia I found means to send a private and uncensored letter to my people.