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How to pronounce edit in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms redact
Type of modify, alter, change
Has types subedit, alter, black out, blank out, bracket, bracket out, copyedit, copyread, cut up, falsify, hack, interpolate
Derivation editing, editor


she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages.
Type Words
Synonyms cut, edit out
Type of modify, change, alter
Verb group abbreviate, foreshorten, shorten, contract, abridge, cut, reduce


edit film.
Type Words
Synonyms blue-pencil, delete
Type of censor


she edited the juiciest scenes.
Type Words
Type of put out, publish, release, issue, bring out


The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years.

Examples of edit

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They also can create discussion summaries that everyone else is invited to edit.
From the businessweek.com
I've made an edit to the original story pointing to your comment if that's okay.
From the guardian.co.uk
In December, he asked Kerry Olsen to edit a new online magazine for the company.
From the online.wsj.com
You can read but not edit many attachments, including word documents and photos.
From the cnn.com
Access will allow you to create, edit, and share existing documents with others.
From the washingtonpost.com
It is invaluable to help me read, edit and create Word and PowerPoint documents.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A useful bit of the computer-edit, find-can help you avoid these bits of excess.
From the economist.com
From Tivo's Web site, users can add, delete, and edit Season Pass subscriptions.
From the techcrunch.com
The next edit was a revert of that, and then came the talk and the edit warring.
From the en.wikipedia.org
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  • 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"
  • Supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
  • Cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
  • Cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"
  • (edited) emended: improved or corrected by critical editing; "the emended text"
  • (editing) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
  • The Edit application was a simple text editor for the early Apple Macintosh. It was included with the basic system software to demonstrate the use of the Macintosh user interface.
  • MS-DOS Editor is a text editor that comes with MS-DOS (since version 5) and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. Originally (up to MS-DOS 6.22) it was actually QBasic running in editor mode. With DOS 7 (Windows 95), QBasic was removed and MS-DOS Editor became a standalone program.
  • Edward Ma, better known under the recording name edIT (or The Con-Artist) is a Los Angeles electronic producer and DJ. ...