to remove words or information from a text before it is printed or made available to the public

Officers' names are routinely redacted from any publicly released reports. 在公开的材料中，军官们的姓名经常被隐去。

Some parts of secret files are available to the public, but heavily redacted. 有一些秘密文件公众可以看到，但是内容已被大量删减。