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

There are a few pictures of him with women and a framed photo of Epstein and a redacted woman with a $22,500 oversized check signed by Trump. —Casey Morell, NPR, 20 Dec. 2025

The law also requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide Congress with a detailed accounting of any redacted or withheld records within 15 days of the public release. —Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 19 Dec. 2025

In a few cases, documents are almost entirely redacted. —Joe Walsh, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025

Thursday’s photo drop from includes 68 total images, including redacted images of passports from Morocco, Russia, Italy, Czech Republic, South Africa, Ukraine and Lithuania. —Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 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