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blue-penciling

blue-penciling is the present participle and gerund of blue-pencil.

Meaning of blue-pencil

Verb

blue-pencil (third-person singular simple present blue-pencils, present participle (US) blue-penciling or (UK) blue-pencilling, simple past and past participle (US) blue-penciled or (UK) blue-pencilled)

  1. (transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
  2. (slang) To use a line-item veto.

Questions about blue-penciling

What is blue-penciling the present participle and gerund of?
Blue-penciling is the present participle and gerund of blue-pencil.

Words near blue-penciling in the dictionary

  1. blue-nosed
  2. blue-ocean
  3. blue-on-blue
  4. blue-pencil
  5. blue-penciled
  6. blue-penciling
  7. blue-pencilled
  8. blue-pencilling
  9. blue-pencils
  10. blue-pill
  11. blue-pilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-penciling (page history and authors); blue-pencil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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