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blue-pencilling
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Present participle for to edit, especially to censor, written documents
Present participle for to remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
Present participle for to check a written text for errors in spelling and grammar
Present participle for to erase or render written information illegible
Present participle for to change or alter in some way, especially written material
Present participle for to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of
Present participle for to shorten or abridge written material
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Verb
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Present participle for to edit, especially to censor, written documents
deleting
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
deleing
killing
eliding
striking out
crosses out
scratching out
editing out
stroking out
cutting
scrubbing
erasing
removing
blotting out
expunging
eliminating
excising
rubbing out
taking out
cutting out
wiping out
putting a line through
scrapping
omitting
scoring out
inking out
effacing
destroying
scratching
obliterating
axing
blacking out
editing
squashing
blocking out
getting rid of
blanking out
leaving out
eradicating
expurgating
excluding
dropping
rubbing
exterminating
trimming
annulling
striking
zapping
squelching
knocking off
chopping
stamping out
cleaning up
bluing pencil
stamping across
suppressing
passing over
shedding
subtracting
redacting
snipping
censoring
unpublishing
sterilizing
US
sanitising
UK
overwriting
scoring
terminating
sterilising
UK
bleeping
decontaminating
ruling out
whiting out
cleaning
passing up
sanitizing
US
discarding
bowdlerizing
US
demolishing
devastating
desolating
extirpating
nixing
decimating
annihilating
wasting
liquidating
abolishing
extinguishing
razing
wrecking
offing
levelling
UK
leveling
US
trashing
totaling
finishing
torpedoing
totalling
exscinding
marking out
shooting down
obscuring
taking apart
ravaging
doing in
wiping off the map
snuffing out
knocking out
wiping off face of earth
destroying root and branch
rubbing off
washing out
rooting out
finishing off
sinking
smashing
covering
blowing sky-high
sweeping away
removing all traces of
putting paid to
KO'ing
blowing to bits
wiping off the face of the earth
defeating
scissoring out
crossing through
slashing
giving the chop
laundering
lopping off
bowdlerising
UK
gutting
cutting up
cancelling out
striking through
scrubbing out
canceling out
scoring through
more ❯
“Good and true writing no magazine or newspaper editor will
blue-pencil
.”
Verb
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Present participle for to remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
bowdlerising
UK
bowdlerizing
US
censoring
expurgating
redacting
cutting
purging
sanitising
UK
sanitizing
US
editing
purifying
abridging
amending
emasculating
laundering
cleaning up
red-pencilling
red-penciling
making acceptable
making presentable
making palatable
deleting parts of
making deletions in
watering down
making cuts to
bleeping
blipping
screening
deleting
sterilizing
US
excising
bleeping out
bluing pencil
unpublishing
exscinding
removing
squelching
vetting
sterilising
UK
striking out
making changes to
making cuts in
scissoring out
blacking out
blue-penciling
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to check a written text for errors in spelling and grammar
proofreading
correcting
revising
checking
editing
rephrasing
analysing
UK
analyzing
US
refining
copyediting
rearranging
checking over
going over
checking through
looking over
looking through
marking up
Verb
▲
Present participle for to erase or render written information illegible
effacing
erasing
editing
deleting
redacting
concealing
blanking
blotting
censoring
striking out
crosses out
scoring out
scratching out
inking out
blanking out
blocking out
blotting out
cancelling out
canceling out
blacking out
whiting out
canceling
US
cancelling
UK
annulling
bluing pencil
rescinding
revoking
quashing
repealing
invalidating
abrogating
negating
countermanding
voiding
reversing
nullifying
nulling
disannulling
undoing
cutting
rendering invalid
taking out
rolling back
declaring null and void
rendering null and void
abolishing
dissolving
scrubbing
obviating
abating
reneging
terminating
editing out
striking down
putting a line through
recalling
retracting
withdrawing
dropping
deleing
killing
vetoing
obliterating
trimming
neutralizing
US
striking
annihilating
wiping out
bowdlerizing
US
squashing
rebutting
axing
scraping off
wiping off
cutting out
bowdlerising
UK
neutralising
UK
repudiating
vacating
disallowing
avoiding
rejecting
abnegating
bleeping
vitiating
zapping
scratching
trashing
torpedoing
calling all bets off
setting aside
stamping out
doing away with
forgetting it
casting aside
washing out
bringing to an end
counteracting
countervailing
removing
recanting
taking back
nixing
discarding
purging
omitting
scrapping
backpedaling
US
backpedalling
UK
excluding
making void
lifting
expunging
calling back
rubbing out
declaring invalid
Xing out
putting an end to
stroking out
rooting out
sweeping away
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to change or alter in some way, especially written material
revising
altering
changing
modifying
amending
revamping
reworking
remodeling
US
remodelling
UK
correcting
adjusting
recasting
editing
adapting
refashioning
reorganising
UK
reorganizing
US
overhauling
emending
redoing
remaking
varying
rewriting
redrafting
restyling
updating
rephrasing
upgrading
debugging
recalibrating
rescripting
rebranding
rehashing
redrawing
scrubbing
cutting
making over
Verb
▲
Present participle for to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
downplaying
understating
underplaying
moderating
underemphasizing
mitigating
palliating
euphemizing
subduing
shushing
de-emphasizing
playing down
making light of
glossing over
toning down
shrugging off
making little of
making nothing of
setting little store by
setting no store by
going easy
putting on the soft pedal
mincing words
Verb
▲
Present participle for to shorten or abridge written material
trimming
shortening
abridging
abstracting
condensing
abbreviating
clipping
cropping
digesting
summarising
UK
summarizing
US
synopsizing
truncating
contracting
curtailing
cutting
downsizing
pruning
reducing
telescoping
snipping
bluing pencil
boiling down
putting in a nutshell
editing
epitomizing
US
encapsulating
epitomising
UK
outlining
sketching
giving a precis of
giving an abstract of
summing up
giving a digest of
giving an outline of
giving a synopsis of
giving a summary of
summating
summing
inventorying
chopping
capsuling
minifying
distilling
cutting down
getting to the meat
making a long story short
decreasing
cutting back
lessening
shrinking
diminishing
slashing
paring down
compressing
limiting
paring
docking
whittling down
minimizing
US
cutting short
lowering
minimising
UK
eliding
syncopating
making cutbacks in
axing
slimming down
narrowing
retrenching
scaling down
lopping
bringing down
curbing
restricting
dwindling
restraining
downscaling
rolling back
running down
dialing down
winding down
tapering
recapping
marking down
easing
shaving
concentrating
moderating
skimming
decrementing
dropping
tightening
attenuating
rounding down
toning down
tapering off
cutting back on
dropping off
taking down
whittling away
making reductions in
bobbing
easing off
constricting
recapitulating
excerpting
mitigating
getting shorter
lightening
consolidating
reprising
briefing
making shorter
cutting off
taking up
cutting to the bone
eliminating
lopping off
tempering
turning up
quelling
abating
alleviating
ebbing
compiling
couching
relaxing
declining
downgrading
whittling
tightening up
wrapping up
giving main points
running through
de-escalating
stepping down
trimming down
trimming back
tailing off
foreshortening
slimming
capsulizing
deflating
chopping down
conflating
shearing
wasting away
depleting
stopping short
doing away with
getting rid of
taking out
cutting out
rationing
reviewing
assembling
compacting
removing
deleting
omitting
confining
annotating
nutshelling
subduing
stifling
cramping
inhibiting
controlling
halting
waning
denting
butchering
splicing
casting down
impairing
drying up
amortising
UK
degrading
slackening
making less
sinking
eroding
petering out
devaluating
amortizing
US
weakening
extenuating
taking the edge off
qualifying
making smaller
slowing down
depressing
diluting
damping down
retrograding
ciphering
rehashing
cutting to bone
reining in
taking off
breaking off
going over
giving the main points of
giving a rundown of
making a summary of
giving the gist of
reining back
holding back
putting the brakes on
putting a restriction on
putting a limit on
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