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red-penciling

red-penciling is the present participle and gerund of red-pencil.

Meaning of red-pencil

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).

Questions about red-penciling

What is red-penciling the present participle and gerund of?
Red-penciling is the present participle and gerund of red-pencil.

Words near red-penciling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red-penciling (page history and authors); 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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