The Collaborative International Dictionary
discolored \dis*col"ored\, a.
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Altered in color; stained; spotted or streaked with foreign matter.
Syn: discoloured. [1913 Webster]
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Variegated; of divers colors. [R.]
That ever wore discolored arms.
--Chapman.
Wiktionary
1 Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained. 2 (context obsolete English) multicolored. alt. 1 Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained. 2 (context obsolete English) multicolored. v
(en-past of: discolor)
WordNet
adj. having the color spoiled with spots or streaks [syn: discoloured]
Usage examples of "discolored".
I opened the door and found the young woman leaning against the sink, running a finger over the discolored portion of her thin face as she stared at her almost unrecognizable image in the mirror.
Marco had gone back several centuries, between removing the new paint and the grime that had so discolored the original canvas.
Round, discolored lenses flashed in the starlight in their twisted frames.
And Gae sprawled, like the maggot-riddled corpse of a beautiful woman, with the bones starting to work up through discolored and falling flesh.
The plaster, discolored by the steam of many wash-days, was crisscrossed with cracks from the big earthquake of the previous spring.
Swollen, bruised, discolored, every feature had been beaten out of all semblance of familiarity.
He returned to the studio where a fire burned in the hearth, held his discolored scraps over the smoke for testing, and after a moment his copy of the youth.
His lips were pulled back in a grimace, revealing his rotten and discolored teeth.
Parting her lips to disclose gapped rows of discolored teeth, she began to speak.
His mind was occupied by the strangeness of it all: these quiet, dreamy people, in their silken tunics and soft sandals, moving with aimless vagueness among the discolored ruins.
His thin fingers ran over them, suddenly catching on a discolored link.
The sleeves of her blouse, wadded and discolored, were pinkish from blood that had seeped out of her pores along with copious fever sweat.
Ashen features, hair lank with sweat, lips discolored by the medicine.
He displayed his teeth, small and evenly separated, but discolored in a way that was familiar to me.
Fu-Manchu slowly raised his hands, and a smile dawned upon the impassive features--a smile that had no mirth in it, only menace, revealing as it did his even, discolored teeth, but leaving the filmed eyes inanimate, dull, inhuman.