Meanings
verbprecensor (third-person singular simple present precensors, present participle precensoring, simple past and past participle precensored)
present singular third person precensors · participle present precensoring · participle past precensored · past precensored
- transitiveTo censor in advance.
On April 29, 1953, a move was announced that would precensor all stories and scripts before they even reached the sets so that an "unlikely" story would not be passed by the precensor board.
2011, Sumita S. Chakravarty, National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987, page 72
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