Since the originals of Carver’s stories are often two or three times longer than the canonical versions, what Lish did to them (and gloated about doing to them) requires another verb. Not “edit” but “traduce,” “violate,” “molest.”

they are prepared to put at risk the living and traduce the dead

Jeremy Corbyn was the traduced laughing-stock leader of a broken and divided opposition

If a conspiracy theory traduces America, then Gore’ll subscribe to it.

And in the traducing and misrepresentation of opponents

warning that solicitude for so-called identity politics among sectional groups that Trump openly traduced caused Clinton’s electoral defeat

Her snapping voice in my ear acquired a strange familiarity over those hours, her careless traducing of my character came to feel almost companionable by the end

they had to be deposed by an alternative ruler or else a constitutional movement from below that traduced the posture of the Pentagon's modernization attempts.

It is so little and yet he is so damned for he has traduced the choirboys and left pregnant half the rich wives of the village

This morning two clues in particular taunted and traduced him

the proud, moistened, middle-distance stare of a man who believes himself to have been gravely and perhaps insupportably traduced.

Yes, because it doesn’t traduce who I am.

The agency may in fact be the villain in most postwar spy stories: it tries to eliminate Jason Bourne, it traduces its employees like Milo Weaver or David Morgan