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redacted

redacted adjective: edited or censored. Also the simple past and past participle of redact.

redacted: edited or censored
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Adjective

redacted (comparative more redacted, superlative most redacted)

  1. Edited or censored.
    • The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.
    • In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show...2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical...

Also used as

redacted is also the simple past and past participle of redact.

redacted meaning in Urdu

redacted in Urdu

ریڈیکٹ کیا گیا

Forms of redacted

comparativemore redacted
superlativemost redacted

Words formed from redacted

Questions about redacted

What does redacted mean?
Redacted means edited or censored.
What is redacted in Urdu?
Redacted in Urdu is ریڈیکٹ کیا گیا. See Redacted meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is redacted?
Redacted is an adjective.

Words near redacted in the dictionary

  1. red-zones
  2. red-zoning
  3. Reda
  4. redact
  5. redactable
  6. redacted
  7. redactic
  8. redacting
  9. redaction
  10. redactional
  11. redactions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redacted (page history and authors); redacted (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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