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Definition of Decolorize
1. Verb. Remove color from. "The sun bleached the red shirt"
Generic synonyms: Discolor
Derivative terms: Bleach, Bleacher
Definition of Decolorize
1. v. t. To deprive of color; to whiten.
Definition of Decolorize
1. Verb. (US transitive) To remove the color from. ¹
2. Verb. (US intransitive) To lose one’s color. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decolorize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decolorize
Literary usage of Decolorize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory Manual of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry: For by Ernst Leopold Salkowski, William Ridgely Orndorff (1904)
"Filter this off (keeping the filtrate), wash, drain by pressing between drying-paper,
dissolve in water to which ammonia has been added, decolorize by ..."
2. Bacteriological Diagnosis: Tabular Aids for Use in Practical Work by James Eisenberg (1892)
"decolorize in 20- to 30-per-cent. HNOS for a few seconds, until only slight traces
of the coloring matter is visible; alcohol (70 per cent. ..."
3. Arithmetic of Pharmacy by Alviso Burdett Stevens (1913)
"What per cent. of sulphur dioxide is present in a solution of sulphurous acid,
when 2 Gm. diluted with water decolorize 38 Cc. of N/10 iodine solution? 4. ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1858)
"Compounds of tin corresponding to SnO2 do not decolorize iodized starch, ...
When the metals whose compounds decolorize iodized starch are oxidized to the ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1851)
"Other heavy metallic salts and alum likewise decolorize the liquid, ...
Alkaline racemates, tart-rates, anil malates quickly decolorize the liquid, ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"Urines containing unusually high percentages of these constituents have been
tested by the writer and found not to decolorize iodine to anywhere near the ..."
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