red-pencil
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səl verb (used with object), red-pen·ciled, red-pen·cil·ing or ( especially British ) red-pen·cilled, red-pen·cil·ling.
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.
Origin:
1955–60
1955–60
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| red-pencil | |
| —vb , (US) -cils, -cilling, -cilled, -cils, -ciling, -ciled | |
| (tr) to revise or correct (a book, manuscript, etc) | |
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Red-pencil
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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If a reporter brought it in as part of a funny news story about a guy's suit, the average editor would red-pencil the whole thing.
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