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BLUE-PENCIL (blue-pencilled, blue-pencilling)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue-pencil mean? 

BLUE-PENCIL (verb)
  The verb BLUE-PENCIL has 1 sense:

1. cut or eliminateplay

  Familiarity information: BLUE-PENCIL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLUE-PENCIL (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or eliminate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blue-pencil; delete; edit

Context example:

she edited the juiciest scenes

Hypernyms (to "blue-pencil" is one way to...):

censor (subject to political, religious, or moral censorship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They won't blue-pencil the story


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