edit

Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cut delete redact blue-pencil edit out bay amendment polish rescript change prune improve contract correct screen
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Antonyms

lower feature reduce damage maintain break
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Hypernyms

change issue release publish alter modify

Hyponyms

interpolate alter bracket hack falsify black out

Phrases with the word

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Derivatives

edited editing

Anagrams

diet dite tide tied tedi

Examples

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. Henry David Thoreau

Write drunk, edit sober. Ernest Hemingway

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. Stephen Sondheim

Every edit is a lie. Jean-Luc Godard

Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing. Jimmy Wales

I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person. It puts flamewars into some perspective, I think. Jimmy Wales

Close letter words and terms

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