Decolour

  

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Decolour

Definition: Decolour

Decolour

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Decolour

Synonyms: bleach (v), bleach out (v), decolor (v), decolorise (v), decolorize (v), decolourise (v), decolourize (v), discolorise (v), discolorize (v), discolourise (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Decolour

Language Translations for "decolour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

çngjyros (decolor, decolorize, discolour, fade), çngjyroj (decolor, decolorize, discolour, fade). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أزال اللون (decolor). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обезцветявам (bleach, decolor, decolorize, decolourize, discolour). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odbarvovat (decolourize), odbarvit (bleach). (various references)

   

French

  

décolorer (decolorize, decolorize) to). (various references)

   

German

  

entfärben (bleach, decolor, decolorize, discolor, discolour, to discolor). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליטול צבע, ל"""ות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

színtelenít (bleach, decolor, decolorate, decolorize), fehérít (blanch, bleach, decolor, decolorate, decolorize, to chemic, to potch, to white, to whiten, whiten), elhalványít (blench, decolor, decolorate, decolorize, to blench, to discolour, to fade out, to pale). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecolourday

   

Portuguese

  

descolorir (decolor, decolorize, discolor, discolour, dyed-in-the). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

decolora (bleach, decolor, decolorate, decolorize, decolourize, dilute, discharge, discolor, discolour, fade, grass, weather). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обесцвечивать (bleach, decolor, decolorize, discolor, discolour). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dekolorizovati (decolor, decolorize), obezbojiti (decolor, discolor, discolour). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

descolorar (bleach, decolor, discolor, discolour, etiolate, fade), privar el color (decolor). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bleka ur (decolor, decolorize), bleka (blanch, bleach, decolor, decolorize, discharge, discolor, discolour, fade, green pollack, pollack lythe, pollock, to bleach, whiten). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soldurmak (blanch, decolor, decolorize, decolourize, discolor, discolour, etiolate, fade, pale, wear, wither), rengini açmak (blanch, bleach, decolor, decolorize, decolourize, degrade, lighten), ağartmak (blanch, bleach, blench, decolor, decolorize, decolourize, poach, whiten). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

знебарвлювати (blanch, decolor, decolorize, decolourize, discolor, discolour, fade). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Decolour

Derivations

Words beginning with "decolour": decoloured, decolouring, decolours. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Decolour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coloured.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-o-o-r-u"

-1 letter: cloured, colored, decolor.

-2 letters: colder, colour, colure, cooled, cooler, curdle, curled, dolour, locoed, louder, loured.

-3 letters: ceorl, cloud, clour, clued, coder, coled, color, cooed, cooer, cored, coude, could, credo, crude, cruel, cured, decor, dolce, dolor, douce, drool, duroc, looed, lucre, lured, odour, older, rodeo, ruled, ulcer, uredo.

-4 letters: cero, clod, clue, code, coed, cold, cole, cool, cord, core, crud, cued, curd, cure, curl, deco, doer, dole, door, dore, dour, duce, duel, dure, duro, ecru, euro, leud, loco, lode, lord, lore, loud, lour, luce, lude, lure, odor, oleo, ordo, orle, redo, rode, role, rood, roue, rude, rued, rule.

-5 letters: cel, cod, col, coo, cor, cud, cue, cur, del, doc, doe, dol, dor, due, duo, ecu, eld, led, leu, loo, ode, old, ole, orc, ore, oud, our, rec, red, roc, rod, roe, rue, udo, urd.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-l-o-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: decolours, overcloud, uncolored, undercool.

 

+2 letters: decoloured, decorously, overclouds, undercools.

 

+3 letters: bloodsucker, decolouring, overclouded, supercooled, undercooled.

 

+4 letters: bloodsuckers, counterworld, fluoroscoped, indecorously, multicolored, overclouding, pronouncedly, uncontrolled, undercooling.

 

+5 letters: countermelody, counterworlds, nondisclosure, overcredulous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Decolour


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 63 6F 6C 6F 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    -.-.    ---    .-..    ---    ..-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101100 01101111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0063 006F 006C 006F 0075 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871698178818784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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