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unredacted

unredacted adjective: not redacted; uncensored. Also the simple past and past participle of unredact.

Adjective

unredacted (not comparable)

  1. Not redacted; uncensored.
    • Wikileaks has always had a healthy sense of self-importance—one that seems, at least in part, well-deserved. But there's something uniquely hubristic about accusing a major newspaper (and former collaborator) of "gross negligence or malice" over the release of 251,000 unredacted top-secret...2011 August 31, Max Read, “Wikileaks^([sic]) Freaks Out at Newspaper Over Its Own Dumbassery”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2011

Also used as

unredacted is also the simple past and past participle of unredact.

Origin of unredacted

From un- + redacted.

From unredact + -ed.

Questions about unredacted

What does unredacted mean?
Unredacted means not redacted; uncensored.
What part of speech is unredacted?
Unredacted is an adjective.

Words near unredacted in the dictionary

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

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