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单词 red-pencils
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-pencils

verb

present tense third-person singular of red-pencil
1
as in amends
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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  • amends
  • corrects
  • reforms
  • remedies
  • rewrites
  • changes
  • debugs
  • rectifies
  • emends
  • blue-pencils
  • improves
  • repairs
  • rights
  • redrafts
  • reworks
  • revises
  • modifies
  • adjusts
  • shortens
  • redraws
  • redresses
  • restyles
  • polishes
  • betters
  • touches up
  • ameliorates
  • perfects
  • fixes
  • cuts
  • regulates
  • alters
  • modulates
  • mends

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • damages
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • harms
  • injures
  • spoils
  • mars
  • aggravates
  • worsens
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2
as in censors
to remove objectionable parts from a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • censors
  • shortens
  • bowdlerizes
  • edits
  • expurgates
  • reviews
  • launders
  • deletes
  • blue-pencils
  • purges
  • cleans (up)
  • guts
  • abbreviates
  • blacks out
  • cleanses
  • expunges
  • blips
  • examines
  • screens
  • excises
  • purifies
  • cuts (out)
  • suppresses
  • silences
  • bleeps
  • represses
  • condemns
  • x's (out)
  • scrutinizes
  • denounces
  • censures

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • approves
  • authorizes
  • sanctions
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