DECOLOR

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

(verb) remove color from; “The sun bleached the red shirt”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

decolor (third-person singular simple present decolors, present participle decoloring, simple past and past participle decolored)

United States alternative spelling of decolour

Anagrams

• cedorol, colored, croodle, crooled

Source: Wiktionary


De*col"or, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. décolorer, L. decolorare. Cf. Discolor.]

Definition: To deprive of color; to bleach.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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