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colour in

Other forms: colours in; coloured in; colouring in

Definitions of colour in
  1. verb
    add color to
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    types:
    blackwash
    color with blackwash
    motley, parti-color
    make motley; color with different colors
    polychrome, polychromise, polychromize
    color with many colors; make polychrome
    azure
    color a light shade of blue
    empurple, purple, purpurate
    color purple
    aurify
    turn golden
    verdigris
    color verdigris
    pinkify
    make pink
    incarnadine
    make flesh-colored
    brown, embrown
    make brown in color
    handcolor, handcolour
    color by hand
    tinct, tinge, tint, touch
    color lightly
    pigment
    color or dye with a pigment
    hue, imbue
    suffuse with color
    retouch
    give retouches to (hair)
    silver
    make silver in color
    gray, grey
    make grey
    tone
    change to a color image
    redden
    make red
    blotch, mottle, streak
    mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
    henna
    apply henna to one's hair
    madder
    color a moderate to strong red
    tincture
    stain or tint with a color
    complexion
    give a certain color to
    encrimson
    make crimson
    vermilion, vermillion
    to color a vivid red to reddish-orange color
    carmine
    color carmine
    rubify
    make ruby red
    ruddle
    redden as if with a red ocher color
    type of:
    alter, change, modify
    cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
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