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blue-pencil
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb blue-pencil has 1 sense
- blue-pencil(v = verb.change) delete, edit - cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" is one way to censor
Sample sentence:
They won't blue-pencil the story
CIDE DICTIONARY
blue-pencil, v. t.
to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc. [WordNet 1.5]
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