vermilionizev.
rare.
transitive. To vermilion. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > make red [verb (transitive)] > with dye, stain, or pigment
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1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 325 The genius of Mr. Owen Jones, which, plunging into colouring matter, would vermilionise the palest face of Death.
1924 W. J. Locke Coming of Amos iv. 43 If I had found myself at five-and-twenty with fifty thousand pounds lying at the bank, verily, I believe, I should have vermilionized the cosmos.
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