censoring Definition

censor
noun

1. An official who examines books, films, newspaper articles, etc, with the power to cut out any parts thought politically sensitive or offensive, and to forbid publication or showing altogether.
2. historical
In ancient Rome: either of the two magistrates who kept account of the property of Roman citizens and watched over their morals.
3. Someone who controls the actions and behaviour of others on moral grounds.
4. psychol.
An unconscious mechanism in the mind which inhibits the emergence of that which is painful to the conscious from the subconscious.

verb censored, censoring

1. To alter or cut out parts of something, or forbid its publication, showing or delivery.

Thesaurus: edit, cut, amend, expurgate, excise, suppress, bowdlerize.
2. To act as a censor.

Derivative: censorial
adj

Etymology: 16c: Latin, from censere to estimate or assess.