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REDACT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication

Synonyms:

redact; redactor; reviser; rewrite man; rewriter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("redact" is a kind of...):

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))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "redact"):

abbreviator; abridger (one who shortens or abridges or condenses a written work)

Derivation:

redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

Example:

she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages

Synonyms:

edit; redact

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "redact" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "redact"):

alter; falsify; interpolate (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)

blank out (cut out, as for political reasons)

copyedit; copyread; subedit (edit and correct (written or printed material))

bracket; bracket out (place into brackets)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't redact the story

Derivation:

redact (someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication)

redaction (putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form)

redactor (someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Formulate in a particular style or language

Example:

She cast her request in very polite language

Synonyms:

cast; couch; frame; put; redact

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "redact" is one way to...):

articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

redaction (the act of putting something in writing)

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