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

More details are expected to come to light when a redacted version of the suit is unsealed, pulling back the curtain a little on one of the toughest break ups in corporate fashion. —Evan Clark, Footwear News, 23 June 2025

The documents, some redacted, show how the CIA responded to his killing and detailed RFK's trip to the Soviet Union, among other vignettes about his life and the broader social and political context of the time. —Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025

The document was attached to the initial complaint as a redacted exhibit. —Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 June 2025

But Entergy has asked state regulators to keep key terms of the contract secret, and only a redacted version of its application is available online. —Eliza Martin, The Conversation, 5 June 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