redact

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• /ɹɪˈdækt/
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From Old French redacter, from Latin redactus, perfect passive participle of redigō (“drive, lead, collect, reduce”), from re- (“back”) + agō (“put in motion, drive”). Piecewise doublet of react.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: редактирам (redaktiram) — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Dutch: redigeren — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Finnish: toimittaa — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Hungarian: szerkeszt — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Hungarian: meghúz — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Hungarian: lerövidít — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Hungarian: kivonatol — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Polish: redagować — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Polish: zredagować — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Russian: облека́ть в литерату́рную фо́рму (oblekátʹ v literatúrnuju fórmu) — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Russian: редакти́ровать (redaktírovatʹ) — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Russian: составля́ть (sostavljátʹ) — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Spanish: redactar — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Swedish: redigera — to reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape
• Danish: overstrege — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Finnish: poistaa — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Finnish: peittää — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Finnish: sensuroida — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• French: censurer — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• French: caviarder — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Galician: velar — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• German: bearbeiten — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• German: redigieren — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• German: schwärzen — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Hungarian: anonimizál — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Italian: oscurare — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Norwegian Bokmål: sladde — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Polish: cenzurować — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Polish: ocenzurować — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Portuguese: expurgar — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Portuguese: censurar — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Russian: редакти́ровать (redaktírovatʹ) — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Russian: цензури́ровать (cenzurírovatʹ) — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder
• Spanish: expurgar — to censor, to black out or remove parts of (a document) while leaving the remainder