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self-edit

self-edit verb: to censor oneself; to stop oneself from saying certain things.

Verb

self-edit (third-person singular simple present self-edits, present participle self-editing, simple past and past participle self-edited)

  1. To censor oneself; to stop oneself from saying certain things.
  2. To edit one's own writing while it is being written.

Forms of self-edit

third-person singular presentself-edits
present participleself-editing
past participleself-edited
pastself-edited

Origin of self-edit

From self- + edit.

Questions about self-edit

What does self-edit mean?
Self-edit means to censor oneself; to stop oneself from saying certain things.
What part of speech is self-edit?
Self-edit is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-edit?
The past tense of self-edit is self-edited.

Words near self-edit in the dictionary

  1. self-drove
  2. self-dry
  3. self-drying
  4. self-dual
  5. self-duality
  6. self-edit
  7. self-edited
  8. self-editing
  9. self-edits
  10. self-educate
  11. self-educated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-edit (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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