Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Suppressed or subject to censorship: Refers to material, such as text, images, or speech, that has been officially reviewed and had parts removed, altered, or withheld because they are considered objectionable, sensitive, or harmful by a governing or controlling authority.

Usage

• The primary use is as an adjective to describe information that has been officially altered or restricted.
• It describes the state or condition of content after the act of censorship has been applied to it.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The journalist could only publish the censored version of the report.
  • During the war, soldiers' letters home were often heavily censored.
  • The film was released in a censored format to secure a lower age rating.

Advanced Usage

• "to be censored": Describes the passive state of having undergone censorship.
  • The documentary was censored before it could be aired on national television.
• "heavily/lightly censored": Modifiers indicating the degree or extent of censorship applied.
  • The book was heavily censored by the regime, with entire chapters removed.

Variants and Related Words

• Censor (verb): To officially examine and suppress parts of (a book, film, letter, etc.) for moral, political, or security reasons.
  • The committee voted to censor the controversial article.
• Censor (noun): An official who examines material for censorship.
  • The censor demanded several changes to the script.
• Censorship (noun): The system or practice of censoring.
  • The new law led to increased censorship of the internet.

Synonyms

• Expurgated: Having had objectionable parts removed.
• Bowdlerized: Having had material considered improper or offensive removed (often used in a literary context).
• Redacted: Having had sensitive information removed from a document before publication.

Antonyms

• Uncensored: Not subject to censorship; complete and unaltered.
• Unedited: Not altered or corrected.
• Unabridged: Not shortened; complete.

Related Phrases

• Prior restraint: A legal term for government action that prohibits speech or other expression before it can take place, a form of pre-publication censorship.
• Freedom of the press: The right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government.

Adjective

1. suppressed or subject to censorship
   • the censored press in some countries