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/ |
- 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
- for
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘judicial sentence’): from Old French censurer (verb), censure (noun), from Latin censura ‘judgement, assessment’, from censere ‘assess’.Want to learn more?
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