| redact | | |
| n. (person) | 1. redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter | someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication. |
| ~ abbreviator, abridger | one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work. |
| ~ editor, editor in chief | a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine). |
| v. (communication) | 2. cast, couch, frame, put, redact | formulate in a particular style or language.; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" |
| ~ give voice, phrase, word, articulate, formulate | put into words or an expression.; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" |
| v. (change) | 3. edit, redact | 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" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ interpolate, alter, falsify | insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby. |
| ~ cut up, hack | significantly cut up a manuscript. |
| ~ black out | suppress by censorship as for political reasons.; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out" |
| ~ blank out | cut out, as for political reasons.; "several line in the report were blanked out" |
| ~ copyedit, copyread, subedit | edit and correct (written or printed material). |
| ~ bracket out, bracket | place into brackets.; "Please bracket this remark" |
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