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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Edit \Ed"it\ ([e^]d"[i^]t), verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
edit
verb
1: prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" [syn: {redact}]
2: supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
3: cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" [syn: {cut}, {edit out}]
4: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: {blue-pencil}, {delete}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "edit": 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
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