Definition of Decolorise

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


Definition of Decolorise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of decolorize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolorise

decolonization
decolonizations
decolonize
decolonized
decolonizes
decolonizing
decolor
decolorant
decolorants
decoloration
decolorations
decolored
decoloring
decolorisation
decolorisations
decolorise (current term)
decolorised
decoloriser
decolorises
decolorising
decolorization
decolorizations
decolorize
decolorized
decolorizer
decolorizers
decolorizes
decolorizing
decolors
decolour

Literary usage of Decolorise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"... or decolorise indigo, these effects being produced only after a portion of the nitric acid has been reduced to nitrous by warming with sulphuric acid. ..."

2. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"decolorise with very weak acetic acid. A few drops of the acid added to a ... Stain sections for a few minutes ; then decolorise with methylated spirit. ..."

3. Practical Handbook of the Pathology of the Skin: An Introduction to the by John MacLeod Hendrie MacLeod (1903)
"(/) decolorise in absolute alcohol till the structure of the section is clearly ... (cT) decolorise and differentiate from three to five minutes in the ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1907)
"The solution— (a) Does not decolorise the dye reagent ; (li} Gives no coloration with ... for the former do not decolorise the solution, while the latter ..."

5. The Chemical News (1860)
"Thus, for instance, if looo grain measures of solution decolorise 5 grains of copper, l zco or 1300 are requisite to decolorise 5 of copper with 3 of zinc, ..."

6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"It did not decolorise by Gram, though it stained faintly by his method. It showed no branching. In smears from the early cases this was almost the.only ..."

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