redact

verb10

1. •
   To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while leaving the remainder.

   • The military will redact the document before releasing it, blacking out sections that are classified.
   • The names and email addresses of the users were redacted from the public data.
2. •
   To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically as part of the discovery process.
3. •
   To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

   • […] the account of his second expedition was carefully redacted, […] — 1829
4. •
   (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.

   • 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. — 1837
5. •
   (no longer used) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.

   • Octauianus Augustus, his successor and nevewe, redacte in to oon monarchy the realmes of alle the worlde. — 1869
6. •
   (no longer used) 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.

   • 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. — 1871
7. •
   (no longer used, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
8. •
   (no longer used) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.

   • […] the grite penuritie and indigence quhairunto the puir handy-labouraris, and utheris his hienes subiectis of all esteatis ar redactit be that occasioun, […] — 1595
9. •
   (no longer used) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

   • […] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […] — 1554
10. •
    (no longer used, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.