redacted
redacted Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Having sensitive, classified, or confidential words or sections obscured or removed prior to publication or release.
"The committee released a heavily redacted version of the financial audit to the public."
Edited, revised, or prepared for publication.
"Scholars compared the newly discovered manuscript with the standard redacted edition of the chronicle."
• verb
To obscure or remove sensitive, confidential, or classified text from a document prior to publication or release (past tense and past participle of redact).
"The legal team redacted all personal identification numbers before filing the court records."
To edit, revise, or prepare a text or manuscript for publication (past tense and past participle of redact).
"Several medieval scribes compiled and redacted the ancient folk tales into a single volume."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the verb 'redact', which comes from the Latin 'redactus', the past participle of 'redigere' meaning 'to drive back, collect, or reduce to order' (from 'red-' meaning 'back' and 'agere' meaning 'to drive or do').