Discolored
[dis'kʌlərd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Discolor
(a.) Altered in color; /tained.
(a.) Variegated; of divers colors.
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Examples
- It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mouldering, torn and discolored, from the damp walls. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discolored metal and several dull-colored pieces of pebble or glass. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A shirt, for example, must not be discolored by perspiration, nor a waist faded by washing, nor a carpet dulled by sweeping with a dampened broom. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Now they were crusted and the knee was swollen and discolored and the calf sunken but there was no pus. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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