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Definitions for: Edit [v] make editorial changes (in a text)
[v] edit; "cut film"; "cut recording tape"
Webster (1913) Definition: Ed"it, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Editing.] [F. ['e]diter, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to
give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See
Date a point of time.]
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for
publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter
of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Philosophical treatises which have never been edited.
--Enfield.
Synonyms: cut, edit out, redact
See Also: alter, black out, blank out, blue-pencil, bracket, bracket out, change, copyedit, copyread, cut up, delete, falsify, hack, interpolate, subedit
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