censor
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
someone who censures or condemns
Types & categories
- person hypernym
Related & opposite
- censorious derivation
- censorial derivation
Sense 2 verb
forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- proscription derivation
- forbiddance derivation
- medium domain topic
Sense 3 noun
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
Types & categories
- official hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
This magazine is censored by the government
Types & categories
- appraise hypernym
- blue-pencil hyponym
Related & opposite
- censor derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | censorious |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | censorial |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | proscription |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | forbiddance |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | medium |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | outlaw |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | embargo |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | censoring |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | censor |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | censorial |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | official |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | censor |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | appraise |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | blue-pencil |