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单词 red-pencil
释义

red-pencil

verb

red-pen·​cil ˈred-ˌpen(t)-səl How to pronounce red-pencil (audio)
red-penciled; red-penciling; red-pencils

transitive verb

1
: censor
2
: correct, revise

Synonyms

  • amend
  • correct
  • debug
  • emend
  • rectify
  • reform
  • remedy
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Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1

red-pencil

verb

1
as in to amend
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • amend
  • correct
  • reform
  • remedy
  • rewrite
  • change
  • debug
  • rectify
  • improve
  • emend
  • blue-pencil
  • repair
  • right
  • modify
  • better
  • revise
  • rework
  • touch up
  • adjust
  • perfect
  • shorten
  • redraft
  • redress
  • polish
  • redraw
  • ameliorate
  • alter
  • regulate
  • cut
  • fix
  • modulate
  • restyle
  • mend

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • hurt
  • damage
  • harm
  • impair
  • spoil
  • injure
  • mar
  • aggravate
  • worsen
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2
as in to censor
to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • censor
  • shorten
  • edit
  • review
  • launder
  • delete
  • bowdlerize
  • expurgate
  • clean (up)
  • purge
  • blue-pencil
  • black out
  • cut (out)
  • gut
  • abbreviate
  • cleanse
  • purify
  • silence
  • suppress
  • blip
  • excise
  • examine
  • screen
  • expunge
  • bleep
  • condemn
  • repress
  • scrutinize
  • censure
  • denounce
  • x (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • approve
  • authorize
  • sanction
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