redact
American Heritage Dictionary (2 definitions)
- To draw up or frame (a proclamation, for example).
- To make ready for publication; edit or revise.
–verb-transitive
Century Dictionary (2 definitions)
- To bring to a specified form or condition; force or compel to assume a certain form; reduce.
- To bring into a presentable literary form; edit.
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BEGLEITER: The Pentagon says that under a provision of law that allows them to protect the security of forces that may go back into a combat zone, that they're permitted to, what they call redact the images that are released to the public.
After several intense cabinet meetings, Obama appeared to back down and go along with a Panetta proposal to heavily "redact" - black out-all references to specific interrogation techniques, say the administration sources.
The media organizations in receipt of the cables went to extraordinary lengths over the past two months to check and "redact" the material.
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Etymology
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- Middle English redacten, from Latin redigere, redāct-, to drive back : re-, red-, re- + agere, to drive; see act.
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