Dictionary entry details
• DISCOLOR (verb)
Meaning:
Lose color or turn colorless
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The painting discolored
Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):
wash out (lose color in the process of being washed)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
color (add color to)
Meaning:
Cause to lose or change color
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The detergent discolored my shirts
Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):
bleach; bleach out; decolor; decolorise; decolorize; decolour; decolourise; decolourize; discolorise; discolorize; discolourise (remove color from)
sallow (cause to become sallow)
wash out (drain off the color in the course of laundering)
infuscate (darken with a brownish tinge, as of insect wings)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Change color, often in an undesired manner
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
discolour; discolor; color; colour
Context example:
The shirts discolored
Hypernyms (to "discolor" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discolor"):
blush; crimson; flush; redden (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)
blue (turn blue)
green (turn or become green)
tone (change the color or tone of)
yellow (turn yellow)
gray; grey (turn grey)
purple (become purple)
redden (turn red or redder)
dye (color with dye)
silver (turn silver)
blanch; blench; pale (turn pale, as if in fear)
bronze; tan (get a tan, from wind or sun)
burn; sunburn (get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun)
white; whiten (turn white)
black; blacken; melanise; melanize; nigrify (make or become black)
turn (change color)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
