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censurar

Portuguese, verb/sẽ.suˈɾa(ʁ)/

censurar is spelled C-E-N-S-U-R-A-R (8 letters) and appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 27,005th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Censurar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to censure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “criticar”.

What does censurar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to censure

  2. 2

    to censor

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. criticar 2. condenar 3. exercer censura sobre

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of censurar

  • censuro first-person present singular
  • censurei first-person preterite singular
  • censurado participle past
  • censurares infinitive second-person singular
  • censurarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • censurardes infinitive plural second-person
  • censurarem infinitive plural third-person
  • censurando gerund
  • censurados masculine participle past
  • censurada feminine participle past
  • censuradas feminine participle past
  • censuras indicative present second-person
  • censura indicative present singular
  • censuramos first-person indicative plural
  • censurais indicative plural present
  • censuram indicative plural present
  • censurava first-person imperfect indicative
  • censuravas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce censurar?

  • Brazil /sẽ.suˈɾa(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [sẽ.suˈɾa(h)]
  • /sẽ.suˈɾa(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to censurar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is censurar in Portuguese?

censurar appears 1.4 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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