Editing — synonyms, definition

1. editing (a)

adapting amelioration becoming more skilled correcting developing elaborating evolving feeling better fixing growing improving learning mending

2. editing (Noun)

abridgment correction cutting edition issuance issue production publication putting out rectification redaction redress reducing reparation shortening

editing (Noun) — (literature) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form.

piece of writing writing written material copy editing correction cut deletion excision revising rewriting

3. editing (Verb)

blue-pencilling deleting editing out redacting

editing (Verb) — Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting. ex. "Edit a book on lexical semantics" ex. "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

editing (Verb) — Supervise the publication of. ex. "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

editing (Verb) — Separate and assemble the components of. ex. "edit film" ex. "edit out film"

editing (Verb) — Cut or eliminate. ex. "she edited the juiciest scenes"

altering bringing out censoring changing issuing modifying publishing putting out releasing altering blacking out blanking out bracketing bracketing out copyediting copyreading cutting up falsifying hacking interpolating subediting