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red-pencil

red-pencil verb: to correct (written documents).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To correct (written documents).

Forms of red-pencil

third-person singular presentred-pencils
present participle USred-penciling
present participle UKred-pencilling
past participle USred-penciled
past USred-penciled
past participle UKred-pencilled
past UKred-pencilled

Origin of red-pencil

From red + pencil.

Questions about red-pencil

What does red-pencil mean?
Red-pencil means to correct (written documents).
What part of speech is red-pencil?
Red-pencil is a verb.
What is the past tense of red-pencil?
The past tense of red-pencil is red-penciled.

Words near red-pencil in the dictionary

  1. red-niggers
  2. Red-Nose Day
  3. red-nose tetra
  4. red-nose tetras
  5. red-orange
  6. red-pencil
  7. red-penciling
  8. red-pencilling
  9. red-point
  10. Red-Queen hypothesis
  11. red-ragger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red-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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