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Discolor   /dɪskˈələr/   Listen
Discolor

verb
(past & past part. discolored; pres. part. discoloring)  (Written also discolour)
1.
Lose color or turn colorless.
2.
Cause to lose or change color.
3.
Change color, often in an undesired manner.  Synonyms: color, colour, discolour.



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"Discolor" Quotes from Famous Books



... a gelatinous character, much used for soup, and is also pickled; it may be boiled as follows: Put the young and tender pods of long white okra in salted boiling water in granite, porcelain or a tin-lined saucepan—as contact with Iron will discolor it; boil fifteen minutes; remove the stems, and serve with butter, pepper, salt and vinegar ...
— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... less. Careless work plays its part, too, for cotton is easily dropped from the boll and soiled or lost altogether. Leaves and twigs as well as the shell of the boll frequently cling to the fiber, and are picked with it, and all these things tend to dirty and discolor it, and lessen its marketability. It requires about three pounds of cotton with the seed in it, as picked, to produce one pound of ginned ...
— The Fabric of Civilization - A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States • Anonymous

... staminate blooms. No. 4 is a hican from the parent tree of which I have had but three good nuts. The weevil moth works so well in dense woods that rarely are the nuts good there. The nuts are attractive and should not discolor like the lighter hickories, should their opening husks get rained upon ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report • Various



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