(especially) an official with authority to examine books, magazines, plays, films etc and to remove anything regarded as immortal or in other ways undesirable

forbid; ban; selectively remove

to take out (something written or printed)

erase, remove

to rub or scrape out (something)

remove; rub out

a wooden or steel structure on which the framework of a ship is built

fall

to remove all signs of (something); destroy (something)

destroy

(to make) a sucking sound as when feet are lifted from stiff, sticky mud

suppress, restrain

to keep (a feeling etc) back

prevent, restrain

an act of fainting

faint