edit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
    redact.
    • Edit a book on lexical semantics
    • she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages
  2. verb supervise the publication of
    • The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years
  3. verb cut and assemble the components of
    edit out; cut.
    • edit film
    • cut recording tape
  4. verb cut or eliminate
    blue-pencil; delete.
    • she edited the juiciest scenes

WordNet

Ed"it transitive verb
Etymology
F. éditer, or L. editus, p. p. of edere to give out, put forth, publish; e out + dare to give. See Date a point of time.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Edited; present participle & verbal noun Editing
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913