redact

Meaning

1. (transitive, usually) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
2. To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
3. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
4. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
5. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
6. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.
7. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
8. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
9. (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
10. (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

Synonyms

edit

reviser

rewriter

rewrite man

redactor

couch

🛋️

cast

put

frame

compose

draft

drop

editing

editor

execute

fall in

get

indite

intone

journalist

paragrapher

perform

posit

pronounce

provider

put forward

recite

redaction

revise

send

ship

🚢

state

submit

supply

transact

utter

vocalise

vocalize

bite out

elocute

newsperson

publiciser

accommodate

sob sister

amend

bid

compilation

compile

deliver

deliverer

Translations

redigere

✍️

redigieren

redactar

συντάσσω

نقّح

opstellen

διατυπώνω

caviarder

herausgeben

editar

rédiger

éditer

canapé

🛋️

ετοιμάζω προς δημοσίευση

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈdækt/

Etymology

From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”). Piecewise doublet of react.