gerund or present participle
Changing a text, photo, video, or recording to correct it, improve it, or prepare it for sharing or publication.
I am still editing my essay.
They are editing the video for the news.
American English
How to pronounce editing
verb · nounB1Common word
EHdihdihng
/ˈɛ.ɾɪ.ɾɪŋ/
3 syllables · Stress the first syllable.
Form of edit
Changing a text, photo, video, or recording to correct it, improve it, or prepare it for sharing or publication.
Practice out loudMeanings & examples
noun
The work or process of changing text, photos, videos, or recordings to correct, improve, or prepare them for sharing or publication.
The editing took longer than expected.
Good editing makes this article easier to read.
Useful expressions
to remove a part from a text, picture, video, or recording
The editor edited out the speaker's mistake.
to make a text, speech, or video shorter by removing parts
We edited the video down to ten minutes.
Related words & forms
Write edited and editing, not editted or editting.