MEANING
To prepare a document for release by removing or obscuring information that should not be disclosed.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- redact names
- redact sensitive passages
On the page
The office redacted the addresses before publishing the correspondence.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- redact
- Past tense
- redacted
- Past participle
- redacted
- Present participle
- redacting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- redact
- Present continuous
- am/is/are redacting
- Present perfect
- have/has redacted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been redacting
- Past
- redacted
- Past continuous
- was/were redacting
- Past perfect
- had redacted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been redacting
- Future
- will redact
- Future continuous
- will be redacting
- Future perfect
- will have redacted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been redacting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: redact; redacts; redacted; redacted; redacting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: redacts.
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