Related Clues:

• Do some cutting, maybe
• Tend texts
• Tackle texts
• Rehem, e.g.
• Trim to fit, maybe
• Shorten short stories
• Take in, maybe
• Make a change for the verse?
• Let out the waist of, e.g.
• Adapt
• Fix a story
• Make a movie ready for television
• Make less boring, in a way
• Change for the better, in a way
• Revision, informally