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DECOLOUR
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decolour ... he / she / it decolours
Past simple: decoloured
Past participle: decoloured
-ing form: decolouring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove color from
Example:
The sun bleached the red shirt
Synonyms:
bleach; bleach out; decolor; decolorise; decolorize; decolour; decolourise; decolourize; discolorise; discolorize; discolourise
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "decolour" is one way to...):
discolor (cause to lose or change color)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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