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unredact

unredact verb: to restore (redacted material).

Verb

unredact (third-person singular simple present unredacts, present participle unredacting, simple past and past participle unredacted)

  1. (transitive) To restore (redacted material).
    • Please unredact the names of the witnesses.
    • According to administration sources familiar with the discussions, there is internal debate about the best way forward, including whether the Justice Department should submit to calls, such as from far-right Trump ally Laura Loomer, to appoint a special counsel on the Epstein kerfuffle, whether the...2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone
  2. (transitive) To restore redacted material in (a document).
    • It will be necessary to unredact the list that contains the witnesses' names.

Forms of unredact

third-person singular presentunredacts
present participleunredacting
past participleunredacted
pastunredacted

Origin of unredact

From un- + redact.

Questions about unredact

What does unredact mean?
Unredact means to restore (redacted material).
What part of speech is unredact?
Unredact is a verb.
What is the past tense of unredact?
The past tense of unredact is unredacted.

Words near unredact in the dictionary

  1. unrecuse
  2. unrecyclable
  3. unrecyclables
  4. unrecycled
  5. unred
  6. unredact
  7. unredactable
  8. unredacted
  9. unredacting
  10. unredacts
  11. unredden

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