Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of color; bleach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of color; to bleach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative form of
decolour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove color from
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Examples
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* Piezodorus lituratus (abundant * Onychumenus decolor on gorse)
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The little Grey Mantis (_Ameles decolor_), which differs so widely from the Praying Mantis in that the wings of the female are almost completely absent, builds a nest hardly as large as a cherry-stone, and covers it skilfully with a porous rind.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Jam Rhodanufq; Padufqs atq; ingens Albis 9 & ingeni Rhenus cruentl decolor ripi ilufft. '
Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791
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