Word.ws English Dictionary

over-redact

over-redact verb: to remove or conceal more information than is required or necessary.

Verb

over-redact (third-person singular simple present over-redacts, present participle over-redacting, simple past and past participle over-redacted)

  1. (transitive) To remove or conceal more information than is required or necessary.

Forms of over-redact

third-person singular presentover-redacts
present participleover-redacting
past participleover-redacted
pastover-redacted

Questions about over-redact

What does over-redact mean?
Over-redact means to remove or conceal more information than is required or necessary.
What part of speech is over-redact?
Over-redact is a verb.
What is the past tense of over-redact?
The past tense of over-redact is over-redacted.

Words near over-redact in the dictionary

  1. over-records
  2. over-recruit
  3. over-recruited
  4. over-recruiting
  5. over-recruits
  6. over-redact
  7. over-redaction
  8. over-reliance
  9. over-respect
  10. over-respected
  11. over-respecting

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: over-redact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “over-redact.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/over-redact. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.