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Is censure a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word censure is a Scrabble US word. The word censure is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is censure a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word censure is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

CENSURE,

6-letter words (13 found)

CENSER,CEREUS,CERNES,CERUSE,CESURE,ENSURE,ENURES,RECUSE,RESCUE,SCERNE,SCREEN,SECERN,SECURE,

5-letter words (23 found)

CENSE,CERES,CERNE,CREES,CRUES,CRUSE,CURES,CURNS,CURSE,ECRUS,ENSUE,ENURE,ERNES,NURSE,REENS,REUSE,RUNES,SCENE,SCREE,SNEER,SUCRE,UNCES,UNSEE,

4-letter words (39 found)

CEES,CENS,CERE,CREE,CRUE,CRUS,CUES,CURE,CURN,CURS,ECRU,ECUS,ENES,ERES,ERNE,ERNS,ESNE,NURS,RECS,REEN,REES,RENS,RUCS,RUES,RUNE,RUNS,RUSE,SCUR,SEEN,SEER,SENE,SERE,SNEE,SUER,SURE,UNCE,URES,URNS,USER,

3-letter words (32 found)

CEE,CRU,CUE,CUR,ECU,EEN,ENE,ENS,ERE,ERN,ERS,NEE,NUR,NUS,REC,REE,REN,RES,RUC,RUE,RUN,SEC,SEE,SEN,SER,SUE,SUN,SUR,UNS,URE,URN,USE,

2-letter words (10 found)

EE,EN,ER,ES,NE,NU,RE,UN,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 119 words from censure according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of censure

censure

Etymology

From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin censūra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censēre (“to consider, to assess, to value, to judge, to tax, etc.”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ʃə/
    • (UK, now rare) IPA(key): /ˈsɛns.jʊə/, /ˈsɛn.ʃ(j)ʊə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsen.ʃə/

Noun

censure (countable and uncountable, plural censures)

  1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
  2. An official reprimand.
  3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
  4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Translations

Verb

censure (third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)

  1. To criticize harshly.
  2. To formally rebuke.
  3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Related terms

Translations

References

  • “censure”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
  • “censure”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "censure" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

  • encurse

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃.syʁ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

Noun

censure f (plural censures)

  1. censorship
Derived terms
  • motion de censure

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

censure

  1. inflection of censurer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “censure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • cénures

Galician

Verb

censure

  1. inflection of censurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: cen‧sù‧re

Noun

censure f

  1. plural of censura

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kenˈsuː.re/, [kẽːˈs̠uːrɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.re/, [t͡ʃenˈsuːre]

Participle

cēnsūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of cēnsūrus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cen‧su‧re

Verb

censure

  1. inflection of censurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈsuɾe/ [θẽnˈsu.ɾe]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈsuɾe/ [sẽnˈsu.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -uɾe
  • Syllabification: cen‧su‧re

Verb

censure

  1. inflection of censurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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