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red-pencilling

red-pencilling 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-pencilling

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

Words near red-pencilling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red-pencilling (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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