Meaning

(usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
2. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
3. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
4. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
5. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
6. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
7. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
8. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.

Example Sentences

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

The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.

By the time the Department of Defense is done redacting, there won't be much left to read.

Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.

[…] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […]

The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.

Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde.

yere, laborede and founde the arte of logike; þe rewles of whom and causes of þe begynnenge Plato fyndenge encreasede hit moche; but Aristotille redacte hit in an arte.

Word Forms

• redacts
• redacting
• redacted

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Use redact when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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