| 单词 | discolor |
| 释义 | discolor (once / 4080 pages) v If you wash your favorite white shirt with a brand new, bright red towel, your shirt is probably going to discolor, or change color from white to pink. Use the verb discolor when something fades or alters in color. Your teeth might discolor from drinking too much black tea, and you might notice your beach towel discoloring after a summer spent at the seaside. The word discolor has been in use since the fourteenth century, and it comes from the Old French descolorer, with colorer meaning "to color." WORD FAMILYdiscolor: discoloration, discolored, discoloring, discolors+/color: bicolor, coloration, colored, colorful, coloring, colorise, colorist, colorize, colorless, colors, decolor, discolor, multi-color, multicolor/coloration: colorations/colored: bicolored, coloreds, multi-colored, multicolored, uncolored/colorful: colorfully/coloring: colorings/colorise: decolorise, discolorise/colorist: colorists/colorize: colorized, colorizing, decolorize, discolorize/colorless: colorlessly, colorlessness/decolor: decolored/decolorise: decolorised, decolorising/decolorize: decolorized, decolorizing/discoloration: discolorations USAGE EXAMPLESWhile still in one piece, the document was stained, discolored and in need of care. Washington Times(Dec 03, 2016) Her face was puffy from crying, and her lips were cracked, with bits of discolored skin peeling off. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) Her face is discolored, with dark spots in some places and light spots in others. New York Times(Nov 26, 2016) 1v cause to lose or change color The detergent discolored my shirts Syn|Hypo|Hyper discolour bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise remove color from sallowcause to become sallow wash outdrain off the color in the course of laundering infuscatedarken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v change color, often in an undesired manner The shirts discolored Syn|Hypo|Hyper color, colour, discolour blush, crimson, flush, redden turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame blanch, blench, paleturn pale, as if in fear bronze, tanget a tan, from wind or sun burn, sunburnget a sunburn by overexposure to the sun white, whitenturn white black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrifymake or become black turnchange color silverturn silver dyecolor with dye reddenturn red or redder purplebecome purple gray, greyturn grey yellowturn yellow tonechange the color or tone of greenturn or become green blueturn blue suntanget a tan from being exposed to the sun bleachmake whiter or lighter bronzegive the color and appearance of bronze to something staincolor for microscopic study deep-dyedye thoroughly impress, yarn-dyedye (fabric) before it is spun staincolor with a liquid dye or tint fast dyedye with fast colors double dyedye twice hand-dyedye by hand piece-dyedye after weaving blushbecome rosy or reddish change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v lose color or turn colorless The painting discolored Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper discolour color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize add color to wash out lose color in the process of being washed change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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