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DISCOLOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change color, often in an undesired manner

Example:

The shirts discolored

Synonyms:

color; colour; discolor; discolour

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):

blue (turn blue)

green (turn or become green)

tone (change the color or tone of)

yellow (turn yellow)

gray; grey (turn grey)

purple (become purple)

redden (turn red or redder)

dye (color with dye)

silver (turn silver)

turn (change color)

black; blacken; melanise; melanize (make or become black)

white; whiten (turn white)

burn; sunburn (get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun)

bronze; tan (get a tan, from wind or sun)

blanch; blench; pale (turn pale, as if in fear)

blush; crimson; flush; redden (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

discoloration (the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded)

discoloration (a soiled or discolored appearance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to lose or change color

Example:

The detergent discolored my shirts

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Cause:

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):

bleach; bleach out; decolor; decolorise; decolorize; decolour; decolourise; decolourize; discolorise; discolorize; discolourise (remove color from)

sallow (cause to become sallow)

wash out (drain off the color in the course of laundering)

infuscate (darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

discoloration (the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded)

discoloration (a soiled or discolored appearance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Lose color or turn colorless

Example:

The painting discolored

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):

wash out (lose color in the process of being washed)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

color (add color to)

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