'Edit' definitions:
Definition of 'edit'
From: WordNet
verb
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" [syn: edit, redact]
verb
Supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
verb
verb
Cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, blue-pencil, delete]
Definition of 'Edit'
From: GCIDE
- Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), 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. [1913 Webster]
- Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. --Enfield. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'edit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- adapt,
- alter,
- amend,
- annotate,
- arrange,
- assemble,
- blip,
- blot out,
- blue-pencil,
- bowdlerize,
- cancel,
- censor,
- change,
- clean up,
- comment upon,
- commentate,
- compile,
- compress,
- condense,
- copy,
- copy out,
- correct,
- crop,
- cross out,
- cut,
- cut out,
- delete,
- draft,
- draw up,
- edit out,
- emend,
- emendate,
- enface,
- engross,
- erase,
- expunge,
- expurgate,
- gloss,
- inscribe,
- kill,
- make a recension,
- make an edition,
- make out,
- modify,
- omit,
- order,
- organize,
- pen,
- pencil,
- polish,
- prepare,
- push the pen,
- put in writing,
- recense,
- record,
- rectify,
- redact,
- redraft,
- reduce,
- remark upon,
- reorder,
- reorganize,
- rephrase,
- rescind,
- revamp,
- revise,
- rework,
- rewrite,
- rub out,
- scribe,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- select,
- shorten,
- spill ink,
- spoil paper,
- strike,
- strike off,
- strike out,
- style,
- superscribe,
- touch up,
- trace,
- transcribe,
- type,
- void,
- work over,
- write,
- write down,
- write out