Synonyms of redacted

redacted

verb

past tense of redact

as in deleted

to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information

Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records.

The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released.

Related Words

• deleted
• erased
• removed
• censored
• expurgated
• laundered
• bowdlerized
• expunged
• struck (out)
• obliterated
• edited (out)
• canceled
• cleaned (up)
• crossed (out)
• elided
• scratched (out)
• wiped out
• killed
• excised
• eradicated
• stroked (out)
• effaced
• deled
• blotted out
• red-penciled
• abbreviated
• shortened
• clipped
• rubbed out
• rooted (out)
• blue-penciled
• bleeped
• cut
• cropped
• suppressed
• repressed
• blipped
• silenced
• x-ed (out)
• blacked out

Dissimilar Words

• stetted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of redacted

The deceased man, whose name is redacted from a police report, was rushed to Florida HCA Aventura Hospital in neighboring Miami-Dade County, where he was pronounced dead. — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

In the Guthrie case, authorities redacted a line that references how to get payment to the person or persons who sent the note, officials said. — Tom Winter, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2026

The affidavit stated there were two victims but redacted their identities and did not specify which attacks were committed on which child. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 31 July 2026

One other line in that note was redacted by officials before being released to the public. — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Some parts of the transcripts were redacted for national security reasons. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 July 2026

Two friends of the victims, whose names are redacted in the reports, told police about Murphy’s strange habit. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 29 July 2026

While some documents would be able to be released quickly, like materials that only have a couple things redacted, others could take longer to produce, like materials in foreign languages. — Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Reyes and Chamberlain lied to the third man, whose name police redacted in the affidavit, by saying that Reyes intended only to fight Torrey one-on-one. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026