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单词 red-penciling
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-penciling

verb

present participle of red-pencil
1
as in amending
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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  • amending
  • correcting
  • reforming
  • rewriting
  • remedying
  • changing
  • debugging
  • rectifying
  • improving
  • emending
  • blue-penciling
  • repairing
  • reworking
  • modifying
  • shortening
  • adjusting
  • revising
  • redrafting
  • redrawing
  • restyling
  • touching up
  • redressing
  • polishing
  • righting
  • ameliorating
  • altering
  • regulating
  • fixing
  • cutting
  • perfecting
  • modulating
  • bettering
  • mending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • hurting
  • damaging
  • impairing
  • spoiling
  • worsening
  • injuring
  • harming
  • aggravating
  • marring
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2
as in censoring
to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • censoring
  • shortening
  • editing
  • laundering
  • expurgating
  • bowdlerizing
  • reviewing
  • deleting
  • blue-penciling
  • purging
  • cleaning (up)
  • cleansing
  • examining
  • purifying
  • suppressing
  • expunging
  • abbreviating
  • cutting (out)
  • screening
  • blacking out
  • gutting
  • excising
  • blipping
  • bleeping
  • silencing
  • repressing
  • condemning
  • scrutinizing
  • x-ing (out)
  • denouncing
  • x'ing (out)
  • censuring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • approving
  • authorizing
  • sanctioning
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