unredact

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ redact.

Verb

unredact (third-person singular simple present unredacts, present participle unredacting, simple past and past participle unredacted)

  1. (transitive) To restore (redacted material).
    Please unredact the names of the witnesses.
    • 2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone‎[1]:
      According to administration sources familiar with the discussions, there is internal debate about the best way forward, including whether the Justice Department should submit to calls, such as from far-right Trump ally Laura Loomer, to appoint a special counsel on the Epstein kerfuffle, whether the government should un-redact certain portions of already public documents, or whether the administration should do something else entirely.
  2. (transitive) To restore redacted material in (a document).
    It will be necessary to unredact the list that contains the witnesses' names.

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