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red-pen·cil (rdpnsl)
tr.v. red-pen·ciled also red-pen·cilled, red-pen·cil·ing also red-pen·cil·ling, red-pen·cils also red-pen·cils
To censor, cut, revise, or correct with or as if with a red pencil.

red-pencil
vb -cils, -cilling, -cilled US, -cils -ciling, -ciled
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (tr) to revise or correct (a book, manuscript, etc.)


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I had a boss who would have red-penciled both of those contractions; he didn't want to see them in selling copy.
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