overedit

English edit

Etymology edit

From over- +‎ edit.

Verb edit

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

To edit something too much.
- 1988 June 17, Tom Boeker, “Killers”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:
  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^[2], →ISBN, page 70:
  The quick cuts made the film almost overedited.
- 2012, Robert Goldsborough, The Missing Chapter‎^[3], →ISBN:
  He felt Billings overedited him and made capricious changes.

Anagrams edit

tide over, tideover