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blue-pencilled

blue-pencilled is the simple past and past participle 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-pencilled

What is blue-pencilled the simple past and past participle of?
Blue-pencilled is the simple past and past participle of blue-pencil.

Words near blue-pencilled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-pencilled (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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