Synonyms of red-penciling

red-penciling

verb

present participle of red-pencil

1

as in amending

to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amending
• correcting
• reforming
• rewriting
• remedying
• changing
• rectifying
• debugging
• improving
• repairing
• emending
• blue-penciling
• modifying
• revising
• reworking
• adjusting
• shortening
• redrafting
• redrawing
• redressing
• touching up
• polishing
• fixing
• righting
• ameliorating
• regulating
• altering
• perfecting
• cutting
• restyling
• modulating
• bettering
• mending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hurting
• damaging
• impairing
• injuring
• harming
• spoiling
• worsening
• aggravating
• marring

2

as in censoring

to remove objectionable parts from

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• censoring
• shortening
• editing
• cleaning (up)
• laundering
• reviewing
• deleting
• cutting (out)
• expurgating
• bowdlerizing
• purging
• blue-penciling
• examining
• cleansing
• purifying
• suppressing
• abbreviating
• expunging
• screening
• excising
• gutting
• repressing
• blacking out
• silencing
• condemning
• scrutinizing
• x-ing (out)
• denouncing
• blipping
• bleeping
• x'ing (out)
• censuring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• authorizing
• approving
• sanctioning