Definition of Decolour

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


Definition of Decolour

1. to decolor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: decolor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolour

decolorisations
decolorise
decolorised
decoloriser
decolorises
decolorising
decolorization
decolorizations
decolorize
decolorized
decolorizer
decolorizers
decolorizes
decolorizing
decolors
decolour (current term)
decolouration
decolourations
decoloured
decolouring
decolourisation
decolourisations
decolourise
decolourised
decolouriser
decolourisers
decolourization
decolourize
decolourizer
decolours

Literary usage of Decolour

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

1. A Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts: And Collateral Information in the Arts by Arnold James Cooley (1845)
"5 grains of the best chloride of lime, dissolved in 500 grain measures of water, will possess t he above power, and indicate 10° or proof, and will decolour ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"By extension, having the neck and shoulders exposed: said of a woman the waist of whose dress is eut low in the neck. decolor, decolour (de-kul'or), ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench by George Maule, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Selwyn (1817)
"... pence'or'whe-" tue casc m substance was thus: ther it be a Kensington and Co. were bankers in London; the decolour for the payment of in- fondants had a ..."

4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"Sulphuretted hydrogen, soluble sulphides, sulphurous acid and sulphites, together with chlorine water, instantly decolour their alcoholic solution, ..."

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