redact(n = noun.person) redactor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication;
is a kind of editor, editor in chief
has particulars: abbreviator, abridger
Derived form verb redact₂

1.  redact(v = verb.communication) cast, couch, frame, put - formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language"
is one way to articulate, formulate, give voice, phrase, word
Derived form noun redaction₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something PP

2.  redact(v = verb.change) edit - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun redact₁, noun redaction₁, noun redactor₁
Sample sentences: They won't redact the story

   To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit. [1913 Webster]

redact, v.tr. put into literary form; edit for publication.

Derivative:
redactor n.

Etymology:
L redigere redact- (as RE-, agere bring)