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- verb Alternative spelling of
decolourize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove color from
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Examples
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While I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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Well-formed, dense cell membranes, which renders them extremely difficult to stain, but when once stained equally difficult to decolourise.
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Stain deeply, if using a single stain, as the subsequent processes decolourise.
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Canada balsam, as it does not decolourise the specimen.
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Experiments made with different samples of each, showed that native ultramarines offered greater resistance to acid than the artificial, taking longer to decolourise; and that the residues of the first were in general of a purer white than those of the last.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Stain with aniline gentian violet, and partially decolourise with 2 per cent. acetic acid.
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Or magenta treated with a bleaching-agent in just sufficient quantity to decolourise it is invisible when used for writing.
The Poisoned Pen 1908
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While I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door.
The Invisible Man 1906
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While I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door.
At the House in Great Portland Street Herbert George 1898
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While I was still sitting under the sickly, drowsy influence of the drugs that decolourise blood, there came a repeated knocking at the door.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 1897
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