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red-pencil

[ red-pen-suhl ]

verb (used with object)

red-penciled, red-penciling or (especially British) red-pencilled, red-pencilling.
  1. to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead:

    His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.



red-pencil

verb

  1. tr to revise or correct (a book, manuscript, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of red-pencil1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

Industry analysts see areas which the well-financed bank lobby will be eager to red-pencil.

From Reuters

In his office he was said to have kept a box of used red-pencil caps as one way of keeping score.

A red-pencil sketch by Peter — depicting a nude, muscular David from the neck down — winds up in Evert’s hands.

“The Child” is a middling and much-too-long suspense story that would have benefited from a ruthless red-pencil.

Precisely because the spoken word is so important to the Arabs, government censors at first felt compelled to red-pencil portions of the regular Friday sermon from the silver-domed El Aksa mosque.

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