/ˈsent.səʳ/ (noun & verb)

Noun: a person who edits and cuts out offensive parts from books, films, etc., expurgator, bowdlerizer, editor, reviewer, corrector, inspector

Verb: to expurgate, edit and remove the offensive parts from films, books, etc., cut, remove, delete parts of, blue-pencil, bowdlerize, amend

Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is “the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority”. Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national organizations. Marshall University Library defines a banned book as one that is “removed from a library, classroom etc.” and a challenged book as one that is “requested to be removed from a library, classroom etc.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/

Noun: censorship

Adjective: censorable

Adjective: censorial

/ˈek.spə.geɪt/ (verb)

to remove or censor parts of a piece of writing that are considered offensive or unsuitable, bowdlerize, cut, edit, amend, blue-pencil

DURING the American Library Association’s recent convention in Los Angeles, the group’s young-adult services division issued a background report that said the three major school book clubs were ”expurgating books” offered for sale through classrooms. The division formally notified Scholastic, Xerox Education Publications and Troll that they may not use its ”best books for young adults” designation on a book or in promotional material for the book if the title or text has been changed from the book as originally published.

”We really feel that expurgation is censorship and therefore violates our library bill of rights, which says that information should be available to anybody regardless of age or sex,” said Evelyn Shaevel, executive director of the young-adult division, the other day.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/

Adjective: expurgated, expurgatory, expurgatorial

Noun: expurgation

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/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/ (verb)

to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing, to cause something to be forgotten, wipe out, obliterate, obviate, censor, purge, erase, delete, rub out, cross out, edit out:

His name has been expunged from the list of members.

She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.

What those people did to us inscribed in our memory, the memory of an ancient people. We will always oppose those who deny the truth or those who wish to expunge our memory – not individuals or groups, not party leaders or prime ministers. We will never forgive and never forget.

Antonyms

insert

Parts of Speech

• Noun: expunger
• Noun: expunction

French: effacer

Farsi: پاک کردن