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BLUE-PENCIL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: blue-pencilled    , blue-pencilling   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or eliminate

Example:

she edited the juiciest scenes

Synonyms:

blue-pencil; delete; edit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "blue-pencil" is one way to...):

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't blue-pencil the story

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