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Definition of edit : To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.

Synonyms:

dilute, dictate, write, bring down, select, proofread, make up, cast, tailor, rehash, draw up, rearrange, reduce, slew, cut down, redact, emend, shorten, discard, turn out, abbreviate, correct, rationalize, trend, trim, disregard, revise, thin, couch, bring out, regulate, veer, boil down, geld, choose, frame, alter, publish, compose, prune, prescribe, burn, trim back, swerve, skip, polish, massacre, edit out, formulate, curve, write out, compile, switch off, excise, adapt, abridge, foreshorten, set up, rephrase, put, revamp, ignore, cut back, blue-pencil, style, update, amplify, thin out, hack, condense, cut off, slue, touch up, trim down, rationalise, annotate, strike out, bowdlerize, issue, distribute, snub, kill, make out, rework, rewrite, sheer, turn off, direct, disseminate, butcher, contract

erase, expunge, annihilate, cancel, eliminate, annul, eradicate, delete, censor, obliterate, cut, omit, strike, expurgate

Usage examples:

• 1569. 466. This, edit. - "A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I.", R. Dodsley.
• Such critics, of course, would not care to see the vulgar show over again; it is enough for them to put on record their protest against it in the weekly " Judgment Days" which they edit, and by- and- by withdraw out of their private boxes, with pity for a world in the creation of which they were not consulted. - "The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner", Charles Dudley Warner.
• Why not edit it? - "Masterman and Son", W. J. Dawson.