English > discolour: 1 sense > verb 1, changeMeaning | 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 |