overedit

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ edit.

Verb

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

  1. To edit something too much.
    • 1988 June 17, Tom Boeker, “Killers”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      Killers seems as if it's been overedited, underwritten, and, as a last resort, jury-rigged.
    • 2005, Jay Brody, Brody's Guide to the College Admissions Essay‎, →ISBN, page 70:
      The quick cuts made the film almost overedited.
    • 2012, Robert Goldsborough, The Missing Chapter‎, →ISBN:
      He felt Billings overedited him and made capricious changes.

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