censoring

1. 1.

   counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy

   Synonymscensorshipsecurity review

   Broadercounterintelligence

   Narrowermilitary censorshipnational censorship
2. 2.

   deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances

   Synonymscensorship

   Broaderdeletion

   NarrowerBowdlerismComstockery

Other forms of censoring

plural

censorings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about censoring

What does censoring mean?

censoring means "counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in censoring?

censoring has 3 syllables: cen-so-ring. The stress falls on "cen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnsɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for censoring?

Close synonyms include censorship, security review, censorship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is censoring a common word?

censoring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.