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overediting

overediting is the present participle and gerund of overedit.

Meaning of overedit

Verb

overedit (third-person singular simple present overedits, present participle overediting, simple past and past participle overedited)

  1. To edit something too much.
    • Killers seems as if it's been overedited, underwritten, and, as a last resort, jury-rigged.1988 June 17, Tom Boeker, “Killers”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016

Questions about overediting

What is overediting the present participle and gerund of?
Overediting is the present participle and gerund of overedit.

Words near overediting in the dictionary

  1. overedgers
  2. overedges
  3. overedging
  4. overedit
  5. overedited
  6. overediting
  7. overedits
  8. overeducate
  9. overeducated
  10. overeducates
  11. overeducating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overediting (page history and authors); overedit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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