censurer
French, verb/sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/
censurer is spelled C-E-N-S-U-R-E-R (8 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,512th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Censurer is a French verb meaning “to formally rebuke; to censure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Blâmer, critiquer, reprendre”.
What does censurer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to formally rebuke; to censure
- 2
to censor
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Blâmer, critiquer, reprendre. 2. Déclarer qu’un livre, qu’une proposition, etc. contient des erreurs. 3. Interdire la publication ou la diffusion de livres, revues, etc. 4. Frapper de nullité un acte législatif.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of censurer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- censurant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- censuré participle past
- censure first-person indicative present
- censures indicative present second-person
- censurons first-person indicative plural
- censurez indicative plural present
- censurent indicative plural present
- censurais first-person imperfect indicative
- censurait imperfect indicative singular
- censurions first-person imperfect indicative
- censuriez imperfect indicative plural
- censuraient imperfect indicative plural
- censurai first-person historic indicative
- censuras historic indicative past
- censura historic indicative past
- censurâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce censurer?
- /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/
- \sɑ̃.sy.ʁe\
- [sɑ̃.sy.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to censurer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is censurer in French?
censurer appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).