Meanings
present singular third person discolors · participle present discoloring · participle past discolored · past discolored · alternative discolour
- UStransitiveTo change or lose color.
A bad enough bruise can discolor the skin.
1 more example
Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchdescolorer
- Middle Englishdiscoloren
- Englishdiscolor
From Middle English discoloren, discoloren, from Old French descolorer, discolorer, equivalent to dis- + color.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian обезцветя́вам, обезцветя́
- обезцветя́вам (obezcvetjávam)(intransitive) to change or lose color
- обезцветя́ (obezcvetjá)(intransitive) to change or lose color
Chinese Mandarin 變色 /变色
- 變色 /变色 (biànsè)(intransitive) to change or lose color
Finnish värjäytyä, värjääntyä
- värjäytyä(intransitive) to change or lose color
- värjääntyä(intransitive) to change or lose color
- värjätä(transitive) to change or lose color
German sich verfärben, verfärben
- sich verfärben(intransitive) to change or lose color
- verfärben(transitive) to change or lose color
Japanese 変色する
- 変色する (henshoku suru)(intransitive) to change or lose color
Russian обесцве́чиваться, обесцве́титься
- обесцве́чиваться (obescvéčivatʹsja)(intransitive) to change or lose color
- обесцве́титься (obescvétitʹsja)(intransitive) to change or lose color
- выцвета́ть (vycvetátʹ)(intransitive) to change or lose color
- вы́цвести (výcvesti)(intransitive) to change or lose color
- обесцве́чивать (obescvéčivatʹ)(transitive) to change or lose color
- обесцве́тить (obescvétitʹ)(transitive) to change or lose color
Spanish decolorarse, descolorarse
- decolorarse(intransitive) to change or lose color
- descolorarse(intransitive) to change or lose color
- descolorirse(intransitive) to change or lose color
- decolorar(transitive) to change or lose color
- descolorar(transitive) to change or lose color
- descolorir(transitive) to change or lose color
Cite this entry
discolor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolor
“discolor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolor. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “discolor,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/discolor.
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