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COLORIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colorize mean? 

COLORIZE (verb)
  The verb COLORIZE has 1 sense:

1. add color toplay

  Familiarity information: COLORIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COLORIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they colorize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it colorizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: colorized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: colorized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: colorizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Add color to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

colorize black and white film

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

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

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

handcolor; handcolour (color by hand)

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)

blackwash (color with blackwash)

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)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

color (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)


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