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v. supervise the publication of; "The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"

v. 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"

edit, blue-pencil, delete

v. cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes"

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emend

v. make improvements or corrections to; "the text was emended in the second edition"

polish, refine, fine-tune, down

v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

gloss

v. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

decimate

v. kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

delete, cancel

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

obliterate, efface

v. remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"

knife, stab

v. use a knife on; "The victim was knifed to death"

lance

v. open by piercing with a lancet; "lance a boil"

pierce

v. move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply; "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"

excise

v. remove by cutting; "The surgeon excised the tumor"

polish, refine, fine-tune, down

v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

gloss

v. give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

denazify

v. free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance; "Germany was denazified after WW II"; "The highest judges were never denazified"

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