edit

Verb

• cut or eliminate
  • she edited the juiciest scenes
    

• cut and assemble the components of
  • edit film
    
  • cut recording tape
    

• supervise the publication of
  • The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  blue-pencil , delete , cut , edit out , redact