DYED

bleached, colored, coloured, dyed

(adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; “a bleached blonde”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

dyed

simple past tense and past participle of dye

Adjective

dyed (comparative more dyed, superlative most dyed)

Coloured or tinted with dye, or as though therewith.

Anagrams

• Eddy, dyde, eddy

Source: Wiktionary


DYE

Dye, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dyeing.] Etym: [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. deágian.]

Definition: To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

Syn.

– See Stain.

Dye, n.

1. Color produced by dyeing.

2. Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.

Dye, n.

Definition: Same as Die, a lot. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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