COLOR IN

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does color in mean? 

• COLOR IN (verb)
  The verb COLOR IN has 1 sense:

1. add color to

  Familiarity information: COLOR IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOR IN (verb)

Meaning:

Add color to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour in; colourise; colourize; colour

Context examples:

The child colored the drawings / Fall colored the trees / colorize black and white film

Hypernyms (to "color in" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "color in"):

blackwash (color with blackwash)

tinct; tinge; tint; touch (color lightly)

pigment (color or dye with a pigment)

hue; imbue (suffuse with color)

retouch (give retouches to (hair))

silver (make silver in color)

gray; grey (make grey)

tone (change to a color image)

redden (make red)

handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)

embrown (make brown)

motley; parti-color (make motley; color with different colors)

polychrome; polychromise; polychromize (color with many colors; make polychrome)

azure (color azure)

empurple; purple; purpurate (color purple)

aurify (turn golden)

verdigris (color verdigris)

pinkify (make pink)

incarnadine (make flesh-colored)

blotch; mottle; streak (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something