English > discolour: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | change color, often in an undesired manner. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | discolor, colour, color |
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| Caused by | discolor | Cause to lose or change color |
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| Narrower | blacken, melanize, melanise, black | make or become black |
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| blue | Turn blue |
| blush, crimson, flush, redden | Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame |
| dye | color with dye |
| green | Turn or become green |
| grey, gray | Turn grey |
| pale, blanch, blench | Turn pale, as if in fear |
| purple | Become purple |
| redden | Turn red or redder |
| silver | Turn silver |
| sunburn, burn | Get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun |
| tan, bronze | Get a tan, from wind or sun |
| tone | change the color or tone of |
| turn | change color / color |
| whiten, white | Turn white |
| yellow | Turn yellow |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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| Spanish | decolorarse, decolorar, descolorar |
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| Catalan | descolorar, descolorir-se, descolorir |
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| Nouns | discolouration | the act of changing the natural color / color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded |
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| discolouration | a soiled or discolored appearance |