redacted

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adjective

Edited or censored.

“The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.”

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveredacted (comparative more redacted, superlative most redacted)

comparative more redacted · superlative most redacted

  1. Edited or censored.

    The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.

    1 more example

    In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.

    2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of redact
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redacted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redacted.

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