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Decolorize

De-col′or-ize

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To deprive of color; to whiten.
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De-colˊor-i-za′tion
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Definition 2024


decolorize

decolorize

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Verb

decolorize (third-person singular simple present decolorizes, present participle decolorizing, simple past and past participle decolorized)

  1. (US, transitive) To remove the color from.
  2. (US, intransitive) To lose one’s color.
    • 1912 November, Edwin Henry Schorer, “Experimental Studies on Milk”, in Ludvig Hektoen and Edwin O. Jordan (editors), The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume II, Number 3, page 331:
      According to Rühm fresh milk remains blue for 12 hours or more, and infected milk decolorizes in less than one hour.