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pencilled in

pencilled in is the simple past and past participle of pencil in.

Meaning of pencil in

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To fill in or write in using pencil.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To provisionally schedule.
    • I'll pencil you in for tomorrow at noon.

Questions about pencilled in

What is pencilled in the simple past and past participle of?
Pencilled in is the simple past and past participle of pencil in.

Words near pencilled in in the dictionary

  1. penciling out
  2. pencilings
  3. pencill
  4. pencillate
  5. pencilled
  6. pencilled in
  7. pencilled out
  8. penciller
  9. pencillers
  10. pencilless
  11. pencilliform

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