Meaning & use
Redact
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To edit or obscure part of a document, especially to remove sensitive or confidential information before release.
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Officials were required to redact the witness's name from the public court filing.
The company had to redact several paragraphs of the leaked memo before sharing it with the press.
A note on using this word
From Latin redigere, 'to bring together, compile.' Its original sense of drafting or editing a text survives alongside the now more common meaning of obscuring information.
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