Definition of Discolorize

1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Discolorize

discoidal cleavage
discoidin
discoids
discoing
discolike
discolith
discoliths
discolor
discolor'd
discoloration
discolorations
discolored
discolorer
discoloring
discolorise
discolorize (current term)
discolors
discolour
discolour'd
discolouration
discolourations
discoloured
discolourer
discoloureth
discolouring
discolourise
discolourous
discolours
discomania
discombobulate

Literary usage of Discolorize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1869)
"... which, by experiment, was found to discolorize 25 pc more of solution of caramel than animal charcoal would under the same conditions. Proc. ..."

2. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"The object of this filter is not only to remove the impurities similarly to ihr bag filter, but to partially discolorize the liquor and also to neutralize ..."

3. Occidental Medical Times (1894)
"If we inoculate a mouse with garden mould the lesion is local. The bacillus is one of many that discolorize by Gram's method ..."

4. Report on the Nature and Products of the Process of the Destructive by Robert Kane (1851)
"To purify and discolorize the paraffine, Watts's chromic acid process is employed. Re-distillation is also practised, which increases the transparency of ..."

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