"redact" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈdækt/ Audio: en-us-redact.ogg [US], en-au-redact.ogg [Australia] Forms: redacts [present, singular, third-person], redacting [participle, present], redacted [participle, past], redacted [past]
Rhymes: -ækt Etymology: From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|redacter}} Old French redacter, {{uder|en|la|redactus}} Latin redactus, {{m|la|redigō||drive, lead, collect, reduce}} redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), {{m|la|re-||back}} re- (“back”), {{m|la|agō||put in motion, drive}} agō (“put in motion, drive”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} redact (third-person singular simple present redacts, present participle redacting, simple past and past participle redacted)
  1. To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder. Translations (to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder): overstrege (Danish), censurer (French), caviarder (French), velar (Galician), bearbeiten (German), redigieren (German), schwärzen (German), anonimizál (Hungarian), oscurare (Italian), sladde (Norwegian Bokmål), expurgar (Portuguese), censurar (Portuguese), редакти́ровать (redaktírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), цензури́ровать (cenzurírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), censurar (Spanish), testar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-QX3A~xS3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 7 9 4 7 21 6 9 8 11 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 7 9 6 6 17 7 6 8 15 Disambiguation of 'to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder': 65 23 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1
  2. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process. Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-x1KUpDCm Topics: law
  3. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. Translations (to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape): редактирам (redaktiram) (Bulgarian), szerkeszt (Hungarian), meghúz (Hungarian), lerövidít (Hungarian), kivonatol (Hungarian), облека́ть в литерату́рную фо́рму (oblekátʹ v literatúrnuju fórmu) [imperfective] (Russian), редакти́ровать (redaktírovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), составля́ть (sostavljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), redigera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-f~iwPCR- Disambiguation of 'to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape': 2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9
  4. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-oxys36rW
  5. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-v6Rk3sE9
  6. (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. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: collate
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-xHPAraiH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 7 9 4 7 21 6 9 8 11 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 7 9 6 6 17 7 6 8 15
  7. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme. Tags: obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-MvUz1lsK
  8. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person. Tags: obsolete, rare
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-46AWIpYg
  9. (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-STB3FK3Y
  10. (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-redact-en-verb-3EI58cu6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 7 9 4 7 21 6 9 8 11 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 19 7 9 6 6 17 7 6 8 15
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: redaction, redactor, unredact Related terms: abridge, censor, digest, edit, summarise, summarize, bowdlerise, bowdlerize

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified."
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          "_dis1": "65 23 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1",
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          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
          "word": "anonimizál"
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          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
          "word": "oscurare"
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          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
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          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "редакти́ровать"
        },
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          "_dis1": "65 23 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "cenzurírovatʹ",
          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "цензури́ровать"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
          "word": "censurar"
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            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "glosses": [
        "To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Robinson Hurst, “Memoires de Vidocq, Chéf de la Police de Sureté jusq' en 1827; aujourd' hui Proprietaire et Fabriquant de Papier à St Mandé.”, in The Monthly Review, volume 12, London: G. Henderson, page 278",
          "text": "[…] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […]",
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      ],
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        "To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit."
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          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "redaktiram",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "редактирам"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "szerkeszt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "meghúz"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "lerövidít"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "kivonatol"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "oblekátʹ v literatúrnuju fórmu",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "облека́ть в литерату́рную фо́рму"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "redaktírovatʹ",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "редакти́ровать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sostavljátʹ",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "составля́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 2 65 1 2 5 3 1 10 9",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
          "word": "redigera"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mercury de Breze”, in Henry Duff Traill, editor, The French Revolution, a History, the Bastille, volume 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, The Third Estate, page 162",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc."
      ],
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        "(rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
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        {
          "ref": "c1475, Churchill Babington, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century., volume 2, London: Longmans, Green, and Company, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1869, page 273",
          "text": "Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one."
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      "tags": [
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          "ref": "c1475, Joseph Rawson Lumby, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century., volume 3, London: Longman & Company, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1871, page 251",
          "text": "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.",
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        "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."
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        "(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."
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          "word": "collate"
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        "To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme."
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        "(obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme."
      ],
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        "obsolete",
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person."
      ],
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        "rare"
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          "ref": "1595, Robert Pitcairn, Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland: Comp. from the Original Records and Mss., with Historical Illustrations, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Tait, published 1833, section II, page 352",
          "text": "[…] the grite penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar redactit be that occasioun, […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable."
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      "id": "en-redact-en-verb-STB3FK3Y",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
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    },
    {
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          "_dis": "18 7 9 4 7 21 6 9 8 11",
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          "parents": [
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        {
          "ref": "1554, Dean Thomas Guild, Monk of Newbattle, “Diploma of Thomas, Bishop of Orkney and Zetland, and the Chapter of Kirkwall, Addressed to Eric King of Norway, Respecting the Genealogy of William Saint Clair, Earl of Orkney.”, in The Bannatyne Miscellany; Containing Original Papers and Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the History and Literature of Scotland, volume 3, Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, published 1855, page 72",
          "text": "[…] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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        "US"
      ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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}
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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/ækt",
    "Rhymes:English/ækt/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "redaction"
    },
    {
      "word": "redactor"
    },
    {
      "word": "unredact"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "fro",
        "3": "redacter"
      },
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      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "redactus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin redactus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "redigō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "drive, lead, collect, reduce"
      },
      "expansion": "redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "re-",
        "3": "",
        "4": "back"
      },
      "expansion": "re- (“back”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "agō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "put in motion, drive"
      },
      "expansion": "agō (“put in motion, drive”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "redacts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "redacting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "redacted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "redacted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "redact (third-person singular simple present redacts, present participle redacting, simple past and past participle redacted)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "abridge"
    },
    {
      "word": "censor"
    },
    {
      "word": "digest"
    },
    {
      "word": "edit"
    },
    {
      "word": "summarise"
    },
    {
      "word": "summarize"
    },
    {
      "word": "bowdlerise"
    },
    {
      "word": "bowdlerize"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified."
        },
        {
          "text": "The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "censor",
          "censor"
        ],
        [
          "black out",
          "black out"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1829, Robinson Hurst, “Memoires de Vidocq, Chéf de la Police de Sureté jusq' en 1827; aujourd' hui Proprietaire et Fabriquant de Papier à St Mandé.”, in The Monthly Review, volume 12, London: G. Henderson, page 278",
          "text": "[…] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "edit",
          "edit"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Mercury de Breze”, in Henry Duff Traill, editor, The French Revolution, a History, the Bastille, volume 2, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, The Third Estate, page 162",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c1475, Churchill Babington, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century., volume 2, London: Longmans, Green, and Company, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1869, page 273",
          "text": "Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c1475, Joseph Rawson Lumby, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, Monachi Cestrensis; together with the English translations of John Trevisa and of an unknown writer of the fifteenth century., volume 3, London: Longman & Company, translation of original by Ranulf Higden, published 1871, page 251",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "collate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1595, Robert Pitcairn, Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland: Comp. from the Original Records and Mss., with Historical Illustrations, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Tait, published 1833, section II, page 352",
          "text": "[…] the grite penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar redactit be that occasioun, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1554, Dean Thomas Guild, Monk of Newbattle, “Diploma of Thomas, Bishop of Orkney and Zetland, and the Chapter of Kirkwall, Addressed to Eric King of Norway, Respecting the Genealogy of William Saint Clair, Earl of Orkney.”, in The Bannatyne Miscellany; Containing Original Papers and Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the History and Literature of Scotland, volume 3, Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, published 1855, page 72",
          "text": "[…] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɹɪˈdækt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ækt"
    },
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        "US"
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    },
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      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "redaktiram",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "редактирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "szerkeszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "meghúz"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "lerövidít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "kivonatol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oblekátʹ v literatúrnuju fórmu",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "облека́ть в литерату́рную фо́рму"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "redaktírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "редакти́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sostavljátʹ",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "составля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape",
      "word": "redigera"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "overstrege"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "censurer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "caviarder"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "velar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "bearbeiten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "redigieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "schwärzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "anonimizál"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "oscurare"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "sladde"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "expurgar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "censurar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "redaktírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "редакти́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "cenzurírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "цензури́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "censurar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder",
      "word": "testar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "redact"
}

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