redact

Verb

1. To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
   • The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
   • The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.
   • By the time the Department of Defense is done redacting, there won't be much left to read.
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.
   • […] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […] - 1829, Robinson Hurst, “Memoires de Vidocq, Chéf de la Police de Sureté jusq' en 1827; aujourd' hui Proprietaire et Fabriquant de Papier à St...
4. To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
   • The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it. - 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mercury de...
5. To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
   • Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde. - c1475, Churchill Babington, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the...
6. 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.
   • yere, laborede and founde the arte of logike; þe rewles of whom and causes of þe begynnenge Plato fyndenge encreasede hit moche; but Aristotille redacte hit in an arte. - c1475, Joseph Rawson Lumby, editor,...

   Synonyms: collate

7. To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
8. To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
9. To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
   • […] the grite penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar redactit be that occasioun, […] - 1595, Robert Pitcairn, Ancient Criminal Trials in...
10. To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.
    • […] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […] - 1554, Dean Thomas Guild, Monk of Newbattle, “Diploma of Thomas, Bishop of Orkney and...