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    COLORISE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they colorise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it colorises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: colorised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: colorised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: colorising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Add color toplay

    Example:

    colorize black and white film

    Synonyms:

    color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

    Hypernyms (to "colorise" is one way to...):

    alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "colorise"):

    blotch; mottle; streak (mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained)

    redden (make red)

    tone (change to a color image)

    gray; grey (make grey)

    silver (make silver in color)

    retouch (give retouches to (hair))

    hue; imbue (suffuse with color)

    pigment (color or dye with a pigment)

    tinct; tinge; tint; touch (color lightly)

    handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)

    brown; embrown (make brown in color)

    incarnadine (make flesh-colored)

    pinkify (make pink)

    verdigris (color verdigris)

    aurify (turn golden)

    empurple; purple; purpurate (color purple)

    azure (color azure)

    polychrome; polychromise; polychromize (color with many colors; make polychrome)

    motley; parti-color (make motley; color with different colors)

    blackwash (color with blackwash)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something

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