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red-pencil
[ red-pen-suhl ]
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.
red-pencil
verb
- tr to revise or correct (a book, manuscript, etc)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of red-pencil1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
On the drill bit, a note was written on red pencil: “ Estamos bien en el refugio los 33.”
From The Daily Beast
The word Leonore is crossed out and Fidelio written at the side in red pencil afterwards inked over.
From Project Gutenberg
He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten.
From Project Gutenberg
Dwindle produced his red pencil and the answer sheet which had 1,200 small circles punched in it.
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In his diary against that date he wrote: "To be marked with a red mark when I can get a red pencil."
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And mark that, if you would, please, with an "X" in red pencil.
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