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Definition of Decolor
1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"
Generic synonyms: Discolor
Derivative terms: Bleach, Bleacher
Definition of Decolor
1. v. t. To deprive of color; to bleach.
Definition of Decolor
1. to deprive of color [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolor
Literary usage of Decolor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1876)
"The decolor ustus much resembles the phrase which Lucretius twice repeats ...
decolor Indus aquae' will I think gain much support, if we observe this mutual ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"By extension, having the neck and shoulders exposed: said of a woman the waist
of whose dress is eut low in the neck. decolor, ..."
3. The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition; a Treatise on Spelling by Theodore Low De Vinne (1904)
"... diarrhetic dickey Webster decolor decolorize daedal daedalian defense demeanor
demobilize demonetize demonize demoralize denationalize denaturalize ..."
4. The British Hemiptera by John William Douglas, John Scott (1865)
"... decolor, Pieb. Europ. Hem. 298, 1 (1861). Head yellowish; Crown with a
blackish-brown spot near the hinder margin of each eye, and frequently a broad ..."
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