DECOLORIZE

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


Etymology

Verb

decolorize (third-person singular simple present decolorizes, present participle decolorizing, simple past and past participle decolorized)

(US, transitive) To remove the color from.

(US, intransitive) To lose one’s color.

Source: Wiktionary


De*col"or*ize, v. t.

Definition: To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner.

– De*col`or*i*za"tion, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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