redact

1. (usually transitive) To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.Examples: "The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified."; "The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data."; "By the time the Department of Defense is done redacting, there won't be much left to read."transitiveusually

2. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.

3. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.Examples: "The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it."rare

4. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.Examples: "Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde."obsolete

5. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a written document or to put into a particular written form.Examples: "yere, laborede and founde the arte of logike; þe rewles of whom and causes of þe begynnenge Plato fyndenge encreasede hit moche; but Aristotille redacte hit in an arte."Synonyms: collateobsolete

6. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.obsoleterare