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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
2. v. To prepare an edition of for publication: edit a collection of short stories.
3. v. To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable: edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
4. v. To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for example).
5. v. To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), as by cutting and splicing.
6. v. To eliminate; delete: edited the best scene out.
7. n. An act or instance of editing: made several last-minute edits for reasons of space.
8. edit in To insert during the course of editing: An additional scene was edited in before the show was aired.
9. edit out To delete during the course of editing: A controversial scene was edited out of the film.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To put forth; issue; publish.
2. To make a recension or revision of, as a manuscript or printed book; prepare for publication or other use in a clarified, altered, corrected, or annotated form; collate, verify, elucidate, amend, etc., for general or special use.
3. To supervise the preparation of for publication; control, select, or adapt the contents of, as a newspaper, magazine, encyclopedia, or other collective work.

Wiktionary

1. n. A change to the text of a document.
2. v. To change a text, or a document.
3. v. transitive To be the editor of a publication.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cut or eliminate
2. v. cut and assemble the components of
3. v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
4. v. supervise the publication of