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Change color, often in an undesired manner
Answer for the clue "Change color, often in an undesired manner ", 7 letters:
colored
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Word definitions for colored in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., past participle adjective from color (v.); in reference to "non-white skin," 1610s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring .] [F. colorer.] To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them ...
Usage examples of colored.
The eastern Concavity of course being a whole different kettle of colored horses from what Inc calls the barren Eliotical wastes of the western Concavity, let me tell you.
For fun they liked to race cars, drink beer and hard liquor, run coloreds off the sidewalks, and fuck girls.
Commitment speakers, the Freeway Access Group from Mattapan, which is deep in the colored part of Boston where Cocaine Anonymous tends to be most heavily concentrated.
From a pouch on his belt he took a greased cotton patch-Elizabeth noted with some surprise that it was brightly colored, the kind of fabric a woman would use for a skirt-and wrapped it around a lead ball which came out of his bullet bag.
A gaudily colored duck building a nest in the wreck of a canoe half-hidden in reeds.
Elizabeth realized how insensitive she had been, and her cheeks colored with embarrassment.
Perhaps he is dead, she thought with no regret, and then colored with shame and defiance, simultaneously.
She slept for the most part, dreaming strange, brightly colored dreams of Hawkeye and Falling-Day, Runs-from-Bears and Many-Doves and Hannah, Curiosity and Anna Hauptmann.
In spite of the way the dusk colored the mountains and the lake reflected it back, it looked like bad news to Nathaniel.
Her eyes moved rapidly behind lids as delicately colored as seashells.
He could see the royal palace easily from here because of its strategic placement upon higher ground and because of the brightly colored flags that flew from its towers and ramparts.
He had red hair shot through with gray, and a scruffy, identically colored beard covered his face.
There were tables and chairs scattered around, beakers and vessels of every description lying about, some still containing colored liquids, and charts and scrolls lying discarded on the tables and floors.
Tristan watched in amazement as the colored daggers of light finally found their destination.
At this name the count, who had hitherto saluted every one with courtesy, but at the same time with coldness and formality, stepped a pace forward, and a slight tinge of red colored his pale cheeks.