REDACT

redact, redactor, reviser, rewriter, rewrite man

(noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication

edit, redact

(verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; “Edit a book on lexical semantics”; “she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages”

frame, redact, cast, put, couch

(verb) formulate in a particular style or language; “I wouldn’t put it that way”; “She cast her request in very polite language”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

redact (third-person singular simple present redacts, present participle redacting, simple past and past participle redacted)

To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder.

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

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. [from 19th c.]

(rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc. [from 19th c.]

(obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one. [15th-16th c.]

(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. [15th-17th c.]

(obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme. [16th c.]

(obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person. [17th c.]

(obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable. [16th-18th c.]

(obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction. [16th-17th c.]

Anagrams

• carted, cedrat, crated, traced

Source: Wiktionary


Re*dact" (r*dkt"), v. t. Etym: [L. redactus, p. p. of redigere; pref. red-, re-, again, back + agere to put in motion, to drive.]

Definition: To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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