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Definition of Decolourize
1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"
Generic synonyms: Discolor
Derivative terms: Bleach, Bleacher
Definition of Decolourize
1. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To drain of colour, to remove the colour from. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolourize
Literary usage of Decolourize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1857)
"another charcoal trill decolourize a solution of logwood more readily than one
of molasses ; and so of others. As the result of this investigation, ..."
2. The Textile Colourist (1877)
"exactly the same volume of hydrosulphite as to decolourize a molecule of pure
indigotine. These reactions are well defined and prove that the process ..."
3. A manual of vegetable materia medica by George Sampson Valentine Wills (1878)
"... distil off' the spirit, dissolve the residue in water with a little acetic
acid, decolourize by means of animal charcoal, filter, neutralize most of the ..."
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