Noun censoring has 2 senses
  1. censoring, censorship, security review - counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
    --1 is a kind of counterintelligence
    --1 has particulars: military censorship; national censorship
  2. censoring, censorship - deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
    --2 is a kind of deletion
    --2 has particulars: Bowdlerism; Comstockery
,Verb censor has 2 senses
  1. ban, censor - forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
    --1 is one way to outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue censor the movie
  2. censor - subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"
    --2 is one way to
    measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
    Derived form: noun censor1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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