Meanings
verbproof-read (third-person singular simple present proof-reads, present participle proof-reading, simple past and past participle proof-read)
present singular third person proof-reads · participle present proof-reading
- alternativeAlternative spelling of proofread.
Knowing that the printed word is always edited, typeset and proof-read before it reaches us, we appreciate its literary authority.
2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Merely Conventional Signs”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 180
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