DISCOLOUR

 Dictionary entry overview: What does discolour mean? 

• DISCOLOUR (verb)
  The verb DISCOLOUR has 1 sense:

1. change color, often in an undesired manner

  Familiarity information: DISCOLOUR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOLOUR (verb)

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 "discolour" 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 "discolour"):

blush; crimson; flush; redden (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)

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)

turn (change color)

black; blacken; melanise; melanize; nigrify (make or become black)

white; whiten (turn white)

burn; sunburn (get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun)

bronze; tan (get a tan, from wind or sun)

blanch; blench; pale (turn pale, as if in fear)

blue (turn blue)

Sentence frames:

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