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Definition of censure verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

censure

verb
 
/ˈsenʃə(r)/
 
/ˈsenʃər/
[often passive] (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they censure
 
/ˈsenʃə(r)/
 
/ˈsenʃər/
he / she / it censures
 
/ˈsenʃəz/
 
/ˈsenʃərz/
past simple censured
 
/ˈsenʃəd/
 
/ˈsenʃərd/
past participle censured
 
/ˈsenʃəd/
 
/ˈsenʃərd/
-ing form censuring
 
/ˈsenʃərɪŋ/
 
/ˈsenʃərɪŋ/
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  1. to criticize somebody severely, and often publicly, because of something they have done synonym rebuke
    • be censured (for doing something) He was censured for leaking information to the press.
    • be censured (for something) The manager was severely censured for negligence.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • severely
    preposition
    • for
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘judicial sentence’): from Old French censurer (verb), censure (noun), from Latin censura ‘judgement, assessment’, from censere ‘assess’.
See censure in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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