red-pencil

red-pencil
/red"pen"seuhl/, v.t., red-penciled, red-penciling or (esp. Brit.) red-pencilled, red-pencilling.
to delete, censor, correct, or abridge (written material) with or as if with a pencil having a red lead: His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.
[1955-60]

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