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COLOUR IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Add color to
Example:
colorize black and white film
Synonyms:
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "colour in" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "colour in"):
blotch; mottle; streak (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)
redden (make red)
tone (change to a color image)
silver (make silver in color)
retouch (give retouches to (hair))
hue; imbue (suffuse with color)
pigment (color or dye with a pigment)
tinct; tinge; tint; touch (color lightly)
handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)
brown; embrown (make brown in color)
incarnadine (make flesh-colored)
pinkify (make pink)
verdigris (color verdigris)
aurify (turn golden)
empurple; purple; purpurate (color purple)
azure (color azure)
polychrome; polychromise; polychromize (color with many colors; make polychrome)
motley; parti-color (make motley; color with different colors)
blackwash (color with blackwash)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
