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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of orange.

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Examples

  • We'd sit on our asses in people's gardens and eat plump ripe tomatoes pinched directly from the vine with that fresh raw, earthen tomato smell surrounding us in the left-over summer heat, while a full moon rose, slightly oranged, above the waters ofLake Michigan, asking its silent questions of man: Who are you, little ones?

    Puppy Love 2009

  • Well, at one stop, an oranged-hair snowbird gets up to get off the bus.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Buckley 2008

  • Well, at one stop, an oranged-hair snowbird gets up to get off the bus.

    Cranky Old Freaks... Matthew Buckley 2008

  • UPDATE: Using pure nerve, Nina finds her way to the press box and gets some great shots, including this closeup of Jeanne-Claude (her hair newly oranged), Christo (not orange, grizzled), and Mayor Bloomberg.

    "Now that the 'frames' have the added fabric, they have become curvy and flirtatious." Ann Althouse 2005

  • And his big Irish gourd, the shiny scalp oranged with freckles, now scored with pink treatment scars.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

  • Then, satisfied that the scope was correctly adjusted and that a round was chambered and the rifle ready to go, I forced myself to relax while the eastern sky oranged and reddened and yellowed.

    ONE SHOT-ONE KILL CHARLES W. SASSER CRAIG ROBERTS 1990

  • Even saints delicately oranged prefer to be wooed differently.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • Too much punch was drunk, iced, which is a deadly thing, and worse still when the foundation is laid in oranged tea!

    The Reckoning 1899

  • Even saints delicately oranged prefer to be wooed differently.

    Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

  • Thence to where they stood lay a wondrous panorama, an ascent of fields of gilded snow, oranged by the sun, or else of a deep, cold blue,

    Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868

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