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[bloo-pen-suhl]

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verb (used with object), -ciled, -cil·ing or (especially British) -cilled, -cil·ling.

to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.

Origin:
1885–90

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blue-pencil
verb
cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit]

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