edited Add to list Share. When we're talking about a piece of writing, music, or film, edited means corrected, amended, or changed (hopefully for the better). Edited is also sometimes used to mean shortened or censored. A book that's been edited has gone through all sorts of corrections.
What does being edited mean?
having been altered from the original version: being something that someone has edited.
How do you use edited in a sentence?
Edited sentence example
- After the suspension of the Reflector in 1753, he edited in the New York Mercury the "Watch Tower" section (1754-1755), which became the recognized organ of the Presbyterian faction. ...
- Then I learned what those papers were, and that my father edited one of them.
