decolorize
English
Alternative forms
- decolourise, decolourize (Commonwealth)
- decolorise
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
decolorize (third-person singular simple present decolorizes, present participle decolorizing, simple past and past participle decolorized)
- (US, transitive) To remove the color from.
- (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.
- 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: