redacted

adjective

re·​dact·​ed ri-ˈdak-təd 

: edited especially in order to obscure or remove sensitive information

a highly redacted copy of the file

The Pentagon declined to make the … report public, and only when pressed with Freedom of Information Act demands did it disclose parts of the report, some 1,700 pages of documents so heavily redacted as to be nearly incomprehensible.

—Scott Horton

Examples of redacted in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

National civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels, who are representing Adair’s family in a civil suit, issued a statement after a redacted version of the KBI’s investigative findings was released. —Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025

Details of the report are said to be heavily redacted, per WFTV. —Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025

The Justice Department has signaled that more documents will be produced, though victim identities and sensitive evidence will remain redacted. —Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

The contributors are divided into categories: Family, Brooklyn, Girlfriends (whose names are all redacted), Children (names all redacted), Friends, Science, Special Assistants (all redacted) and Business. —John Parkinson, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for redacted

• abstracted
• attracted
• compacted
• contacted
• detracted
• diffracted
• distracted
• enacted
• exacted
• extracted
• impacted
• protracted