"blue-pencil" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-blue-pencil.ogg [Australia] Forms: blue-pencils [present, singular, third-person], blue-pencilling [UK, participle, present], blue-penciling [US, participle, present], blue-pencilled [UK, participle, past], blue-pencilled [UK, past], blue-penciled [US, participle, past], blue-penciled [US, past]
Etymology: blue + pencil Etymology templates: {{compound|en|blue|pencil}} blue + pencil Head templates: {{en-verb|++|past2=blue-penciled|past2_qual=US|past_qual=UK|pres_ptc2=blue-penciling|pres_ptc2_qual=US|pres_ptc_qual=UK}} blue-pencil (third-person singular simple present blue-pencils, present participle (UK) blue-pencilling or (US) blue-penciling, simple past and past participle (UK) blue-pencilled or (US) blue-penciled)
  1. (transitive) To edit, especially to censor, written documents. Tags: transitive Translations (to edit written documents): редактирам (redaktiram) (Bulgarian), цензурирам (cenzuriram) (Bulgarian), käyttää punakynää (Finnish), caviarder (French)
    Sense id: en-blue-pencil-en-verb-b4knYFGt Disambiguation of 'to edit written documents': 95 5
  2. (politics, slang) To use a line-item veto. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Politics Translations (use a line-item veto): käyttää punakynää (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-blue-pencil-en-verb-S8PmEWC7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Topics: government, politics Disambiguation of 'use a line-item veto': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: red-pencil, blue pencil doctrine

Inflected forms

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