verb
- Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- usage: "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
- synonyms: redact
- Supervise the publication of.
- usage: "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
- Cut and assemble the components of.
- usage: "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
- Cut or eliminate.
- usage: "she edited the juiciest scenes"
- synonyms: blue-pencil, delete
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