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单词 red-penciled
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-penciled

verb

past tense of red-pencil
1
as in amended
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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  • amended
  • corrected
  • reformed
  • remedied
  • rectified
  • changed
  • improved
  • debugged
  • emended
  • blue-penciled
  • revised
  • modified
  • repaired
  • adjusted
  • reworked
  • shortened
  • rewrote
  • touched up
  • redrafted
  • restyled
  • redressed
  • polished
  • ameliorated
  • altered
  • perfected
  • redrew
  • fixed
  • modulated
  • regulated
  • righted
  • cut
  • bettered
  • mended

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • damaged
  • impaired
  • injured
  • hurt
  • spoiled
  • harmed
  • aggravated
  • spoilt
  • worsened
  • marred
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2
as in censored
to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • censored
  • shortened
  • edited
  • bowdlerized
  • reviewed
  • expurgated
  • laundered
  • deleted
  • blue-penciled
  • cleaned (up)
  • purged
  • abbreviated
  • examined
  • suppressed
  • purified
  • cleansed
  • expunged
  • gutted
  • repressed
  • blacked out
  • excised
  • condemned
  • screened
  • blipped
  • cut (out)
  • bleeped
  • silenced
  • scrutinized
  • denounced
  • x'd (out)
  • xed (out)
  • censured
  • x-ed (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • approved
  • authorized
  • sanctioned
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