noun
- A digestible substance used to give color to food.
- usage: "food color made from vegetable dyes"
- synonyms: coloring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour
- A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.
- usage: "a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light"
- The act or process of changing the color of something.
- synonyms: coloring
verb
- Modify or bias.
- usage: "His political ideas color his lectures"
- Decorate with colors.
- usage: "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
- Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.
- usage: "color a lie"
- Affect as in thought or feeling.
- usage: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
- Add color to.
- usage: "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
- Change color, often in an undesired manner.
- usage: "The shirts discolored"
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