Past tense of redact
regular verb
The past tense of redact is redacted. The past participle is also redacted.
Forms of redact
| Base form (V1) | redact /ɹɪˈdækt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | redacted |
| Past participle (V3) | redacted |
| Present participle | redacting |
| Third person singular | redacts |
Redacted in a sentence
- The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.
- Like other tax-exempt nonprofits, AIEF must file a Form 990 every year with the IRS, but donors are redacted from the version that is made accessible to the public.2023 November 18, Murtaza Hussein, “Meet the Secret Donors Who Fund AIPAC’s Israel Trips for Congress”, in The Intercept
- The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.From the entry redacted
- “To set the record straight: No Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were redacted from today’s released Epstein documents.2025 December 20, Victoria Bekiempis, “Outrage and legal threats: Trump justice department slammed after limited Epstein files release”…. From the entry pep
- Redacted in a subtler, more deniable way than the way Senatrix Diane Feinstein released Doctrix Ford's name.2018 October 1, Mark Spahn, “Dispositive diaries”, in Not Honyaku (Google Groups), archived from the original on 05 Jan 2026. From the entry doctrix
Meaning of redact
- verb To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.
- verb To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
- verb To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
Questions about the past tense of redact
- What is the past tense of redact?
- The past tense of redact is redacted.
- What is the past participle of redact?
- The past participle of redact is redacted.
- Is redact a regular or irregular verb?
- Redact is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: redact (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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