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blue-pencilling

blue-pencilling 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-pencilling

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

Words near blue-pencilling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-pencilling (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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