🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

涂黑

Pronunciation / Transliteration: túhēi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Redact/rɪˈdækt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这份解密文件中的几个关键名字被涂黑了。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To censor or obscure sensitive or classified information in a document before making it public.

    "The government released the investigation report, but many key paragraphs were heavily redacted."
  2. 2

    To edit or prepare a text for publication.

    "The committee met to redact the final manuscript of the new bylaws."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'redactus', past participle of 'redigere', meaning 'to drive back' or 'bring back', formed from 're-' (back, again) and 'agere' (to drive, lead). In late Middle English, it originally meant to compose or draw up a document, later shifting in the mid-20th century to its modern legal and bureaucratic sense of editing or blacking out sensitive information before publication.

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