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

Now they’ve simply been handed over to the public, along with enormous quantities of semi-redacted material spanning decades and provenances. —Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026

One email dated November 2012 from a redacted individual to Epstein discusses arrangements for an unnamed Russian woman to transfer between private aircrafts at the London airport before traveling on to the US. —Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026

Bondi's testimony to the House Judiciary Committee comes as an increasingly bipartisan coalition of Congress members ask why the Justice Department released so many redacted files despite a law requiring the full release of documents. —Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026

Sending Epstein details of women and their appearances In a 2017 email, a redacted person emails Epstein detailed information about women to be considered for an unspecified opportunity. —Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2026

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