red-pencil

verb

red-pen·​cil ˈred-ˌpen(t)-səl 

red-penciled; red-penciling; red-pencils

transitive verb

1

: censor

2

: correct, revise

Synonyms

• amend
• correct
• debug
• emend
• rectify
• reform
• remedy

Examples of red-pencil in a Sentence

the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print

a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined at sense 1