blank out

verbs

be unable to remember
"I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"
blank out, block, draw a blank, forget
cut out, as for political reasons
"several line in the report were blanked out"
blank out
is a type of (narrower)
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"
edit, redact