Word.ws English Dictionary

self-censors

self-censors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-censor.

Meaning of self-censor

Verb

self-censor (third-person singular simple present self-censors, present participle self-censoring, simple past and past participle self-censored)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To censor one's own words or works; to engage in self-censorship.
    • There's been a lot of talk recently about the problem of "libel chill" on British science writing, that people self-censor for fear they'd be sued (as Simon Singh was by British Chiropractic Association).2010 September 13, Alice Bell, “A physicist, a chemist and a zoologist walk into a bar . . .”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 29 May 2014

Questions about self-censors

What is self-censors the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Self-censors is the third-person singular simple present indicative of self-censor.

Words near self-censors in the dictionary

  1. self-catheterizations
  2. self-caused
  3. self-censor
  4. self-censored
  5. self-censoring
  6. self-censors
  7. self-censorship
  8. self-censorships
  9. self-centered
  10. self-centeredness
  11. self-centerednesses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-censors (page history and authors); self-censor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “self-censors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/self-censors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.