EGAVE

redact

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
    The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
  2. verb To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
  3. verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  4. verb To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
  5. verb To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
  6. verb 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. verb To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
  8. verb To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.

Similar words

edit put frame cast couch compose emend fire unredact black out

Often followed by

the any portions all a certain or ional and

Word family

redacted redacting redacts

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