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   Re·dact

   /rəˈdak(t)/

   

   verb

   • 1. edit (text) for publication: "a confidential memo which has been redacted from 25 pages to just one paragraph"
   • ▪ censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.

   Word Origin early 19th century: back-formation from redaction. Redact is found earlier in English (from late Middle English) in other senses (e.g. ‘combine, arrange, reduce to a certain state’), derived from Latin redact-, redigere ‘bring back’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. redactor noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • D

     2

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

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