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

One email from Cole to Fuller references Fuller’s critiques of McMurray’s participation in a local Rotary Club, but large portions of the message are redacted, obscuring the statements Cole said crossed that threshold. —Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2026

Her sarcastic jab at the redacted Epstein list was followed by a shot at Bari Weiss’ CBS News, despite the Globes airing on CBS. —Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026

The judge denied the motion and released a set of redacted documents. —Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 30 Dec. 2025

Portions of that exchange remain redacted, including a statement by a bailiff that is entirely blacked out, leaving unclear what specific security concerns were discussed behind closed doors. —Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 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