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self-editing

self-editing is the present participle and gerund of self-edit.

Meaning of self-edit

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.

Questions about self-editing

What is self-editing the present participle and gerund of?
Self-editing is the present participle and gerund of self-edit.

Words near self-editing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-editing (page history and authors); 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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