blue-pencil

• Глагол, означающий редактировать, цензурировать или удалять части текста или документа, часто с помощью синего карандаша.

A verb meaning to edit, censor, or delete parts of a text or document, often with a blue pencil.

1. Cut or eliminateC1formal

   To edit, censor, or remove parts of a text or document, often by marking them out.

   Вырезать или исключить

   • The editor blue-penciled several paragraphs from the article.
   • The committee decided to blue-pencil the controversial sections.
   • She carefully blue-penciled any offensive language in the manuscript.

   Synonymscensorcross outcutdeleteeditexciseexpurgateredactstrike