redact
[ri-dakt]
- to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- to draw up or frame (a statement, proclamation, etc.).
- to hide or remove (confidential parts of a text) before publication or distribution, or to examine (a text) for this purpose: The account number has been redacted from the top of the statement.
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Origin of redact
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Related Words for redacted
improved, adjusted, updated, amended, rearrange, compose, prepare, arrange, censor, choose, publish, compile, annotate, adapt, assemble, analyze, select, alter, revise, deleteExamples from the Web for redacted
Contemporary Examples of redacted
The security sections of the applications have been redacted online.
Note: Names of individual officers allegedly targeted by Dorner have been redacted.
Rogue L.A. Cop’s Facebook Manifesto: ‘You Will Now Live the Life of Prey’The Daily Beast
February 8, 2013
A redacted version of the permit may be issued in the coming days, the spokesman added.
Names and certain sections of the court documents had been redacted.
According to the files, “this allows legitimate monies to flow into these accounts along with the proceeds from [redacted].”
Historical Examples of redacted
Their present report they redacted to the effect, "All correct as it stood," without once mentioning Heucking.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.)Thomas Carlyle
redact
- to compose or draft (an edict, proclamation, etc)
- to put (a literary work, etc) into appropriate form for publication; edit
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Word Origin for redact
C15: from Latin redigere to bring back, from red- re- + agere to drive
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