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The act of discoloring something
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discolouration
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soiled or discolored appearance; "the wine left a dark stain" [syn: stain , discoloration ] the act of changing the natural color of something by making it duller or dingier or unnatural or faded [syn: discoloration ]
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n. (label en British spelling) (alternative spelling of discoloration English)
Usage examples of discolouration.
The dead towns it overflew, the remnants of railroad boom, were like discolourations on heliotypes.
About the throat were light discolourations that showed that the young inventor had been choked by a man with a powerful grasp, although the fact that the marks had escaped observation led quite obviously to the conclusion that he had not met his death in that way, and that the marks probably played only a minor part in the tragedy.
The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolourations, but undoubtedly fresh.
He was pointing to faint discolourations along the woodwork of the window.
The skin gleamed green in the moonlight, but it was stained by darker discolourations, which were wounds.
On the other her hand-as though we came close to the moon and it ceased to present the appearance of a disk of rosy gold-on this face, so smooth a surface until now , I could distinguish only protuberances, discolourations, cavities.
I could see the discolourations of slime molds, probably white, but seeming blue in the light, on the walls.
I could see the discolourations of slime molds, probably white, but seeming blue in the light, on the walls.
I have had an opportunity of examining yours, and I do not find that slight discolouration which the scratch made upon the varnish would have produced.
Slight discolouration of vitreous enamel consistent with submersion in fairly highly concentrated sulphuric acid.