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say it: ri-DAKT
redact is a verb and noun meaning "formulate in a particular style or language". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈdækt/ — ri-DAKT. It carries 3 recorded senses.
formulate in a particular style or language
“I wouldn't put it that way”
“She cast her request in very polite language”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for redact come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.