1. (literature) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
   "The manuscript required extensive editing before publication";
   - redaction

1. 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";
   - redact
    
2. Supervise the publication of
   "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
    
3. Cut or eliminate
   "she edited the juiciest scenes";
   - blue-pencil, delete
    
4. Separate and assemble the components of
   "edit film"; "The video editor edited out all the unnecessary scenes";
   - cut, edit out

Derived forms: editings

Type of: alter, bring out, censor, change, drop [informal], issue, modify, piece of writing, publish, put out, release, writing, written material

Encyclopedia: Editing