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penciled

penciled is the simple past and past participle of pencil.

penciled is the alternative form of pencilled.

Meaning of pencil

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To write (something) using a pencil.
    • I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
  2. (transitive) To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.
    • It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.1852, The Ark, and Odd Fellows' Western Magazine

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Meaning of pencilled

Adjective

pencilled (not comparable)

  1. Written or marked with a pencil.
  2. Having pencils of rays; radiated.
  3. Marked with fine lines, as if with a pencil.

Phrases with penciled

Questions about penciled

What is penciled the simple past and past participle of?
Penciled is the simple past and past participle of pencil.

Words near penciled in the dictionary

  1. pencil-sharpeners
  2. pencil-skirted
  3. pencil-thin
  4. pencilbeam
  5. pencilbeams
  6. penciled
  7. penciled in
  8. penciled out
  9. penciler
  10. pencilers
  11. pencilfish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: penciled (page history and authors); pencil (page history and authors); pencilled (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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