redacted text
Information deliberately hidden
Redacted text is text that has been deliberately obscured or removed from a document, typically to protect sensitive information.
Government documents often show redacted passages as black bars or blank spaces where classified material once appeared: The FBI released the memo, but half of it was redacted text.
The term implies official or institutional censorship rather than casual editing.
- censoredSuppressed from publication
- black markerInk pen, dark pigment
- crossed outMarked as removed
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- top secretHighest classification level
eyes only · need to know · confidential · secret · state secrets · obscured · hidden · sanitized · expunged · deleted · removed · suppressed · withheld · restricted · sealed · marker · document · clearance
- Removed thingsamputated limbs, banned books
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- found textfound poetry, blackout poetry, appropriation
- Censored Contentcensored films, banned books, banned films, restricted access, copyright strikes