The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
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Redact
//ɹɪˈdækt//
Synonyms for "redact" (24 found)
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40 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- редактирам verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Danish
1 entries- overstrege verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Dutch
1 entries- redigeren verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Finnish
4 entries- peittää verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- poistaa verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- sensuroida verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- toimittaa verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
French
2 entries- caviarder verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- censurer verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Galician
1 entries- velar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
German
3 entries- bearbeiten verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- redigieren verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- schwärzen verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Hungarian
4 entries- anonimizál verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- kivonatol verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
- lerövidít verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
- meghúz verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Italian
1 entries- oscurare verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sladde verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Polish
4 entries- cenzurować verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- ocenzurować verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- redagować verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
- zredagować verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Portuguese
2 entries- censurar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- expurgar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Russian
4 entries- облека́ть в литерату́рную фо́рму verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
- редакти́ровать verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
- редакти́ровать verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- составля́ть verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Spanish
4 entries- borrar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- censurar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- eliminar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
- expurgar verb (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder)
Swedish
1 entries- redigera verb (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape)
Sample sentences
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The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.
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By the time the Department of Defense is done redacting, there won't be much left to read.
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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.
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