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blue pencil
verb as in abridge
verb as in condense
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verb as in delete
verb as in edit
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verb as in erase
verb as in excise
verb as in expunge
verb as in expurgate
verb as in nullify
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verb as in obliterate
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verb as in revise
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verb as in shorten
verb as in trim
Example Sentences
Then my secretary types up my material, prints it out, and then I revise using a 0.7 mm blue pencil.
The prince took up the pamphlet which he had been busy underlining with red and blue pencil.
Sunday newspaper specials came home with "return" written in blue pencil across the neatly typed page.
He selected the eggs with great care, marking some very choice ones with a blue pencil.
You have not written a single letter since you came here—only a post-card, and that you wrote with a blue pencil.
"Dig up some sand, pard, and fling it into the cinder-sifter while I write out the caution in blue pencil," said Stanley.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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