redact

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English - English
To black out text for other purposes, such as in law, when legally protected sections of text are obscured in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process
To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit
To censor, used by a government when parts of a document are kept secret and the remainder released

The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.

prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
redacted
Simple past tense and past participle of redact
redacted
Edited or censored
redacted
past of redact
redacting
present participle of redact
redacts
third-person singular of redact
redact

    Hyphenation

    re·dact

    Turkish pronunciation

    rîdäkt

    Pronunciation

    /rəˈdakt/ /rɪˈdækt/

    Etymology

    [ ri-'dakt ] (transitive verb.) 15th century. From Old French redacter Latin redactus, past participle of redigere (“to drive, lead, or bring back, call in, collect, raise, receive, reduce to a certain state”) red- (“back”) + agere (“to put in motion, to drive”).
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