redact

1. 1.

   formulate in a particular style or language

   “I wouldn't put it that way”

   “She cast her request in very polite language”

   Synonymsframecastputcouch

   Broadergive voice
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsedit

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerinterpolatehackblack outblank outcopyreadbracket

1. 1.

   someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication

   Synonymsredactorreviserrewriterrewrite man

   Broadereditor

   Narrowerabridger

Other forms of redact

plural

redacts·

past tense

redacted·

present participle

redacting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about redact

What does redact mean?

redact means "formulate in a particular style or language". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redact?

redact has 2 syllables: re-dact. The stress falls on "dact". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈdækt/.

What is another word for redact?

Close synonyms include frame, cast, put, couch, edit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is redact a common word?

redact is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.