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( transitive verb )
Etymology: blue pencil
: to edit, delete, or revise with or as if with a blue pencil (as in order to eliminate wordiness or irrelevant material or with the aim of censorship)
used to look over Hemingway's early manuscripts … and returned them, mercilessly blue-penciled, the adjectives gone — Time
bludgeoned by high-ranking officers into blue-penciling everything except vague generalities — Infantry Journal