EDITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edited mean? 

• EDITED (adjective)
  The adjective EDITED has 1 sense:

1. improved or corrected by critical editing

  Familiarity information: EDITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improved or corrected by critical editing

Synonyms:

edited; emended

Context example:

the emended text

Similar:

altered (changed in form or character without becoming something else)

 Context examples 

Each pair was randomly selected to watch a 20-minute edited version of the PG-rated films "The Rocketeer" or "National Treasure" that did or did not contain guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)

It was agreed that I should write home full accounts of my adventures in the shape of successive letters to McArdle, and that these should either be edited for the Gazette as they arrived, or held back to be published later, according to the wishes of Professor Challenger, since we could not yet know what conditions he might attach to those directions which should guide us to the unknown land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scenes in the movies showing guns were edited out for the no-gun version but the action and narrative of the film were not altered.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)