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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Brit. same as discolored.

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  • adjective UK Alternative spelling of discolored.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of discolour.

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Examples

  • It is, however, a very bad plan, as air and light are particularly necessary to seedling plants; and when they are even partially deprived of these important agents, they become drawn up with weak slender stems, and thin discoloured leaves.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • With pasta or potatoes, the water is often starchy and with veg such as broccoli, the water can be "discoloured" from the veg itself - so not really suitable for washing stuff.

    How can I recycle this? 2009

  • With pasta or potatoes, the water is often starchy and with veg such as broccoli, the water can be "discoloured" from the veg itself - so not really suitable for washing stuff.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • His face was puffed and discoloured, and his large gray eyes were bitter and bloodshot.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • A cheap cotton shirt, with frayed collar and a bosom discoloured with what I took to be ancient blood-stains, was put on me amid a running and apologetic fire of comment.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • The nails were discoloured and black, while the skin was already grained with dirt which even a scrubbing-brush could not remove.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • Henderson seems the best of the hunters, a slow-going fellow, and hard to rouse; but roused he must have been, for Smoke had a bruised and discoloured eye, and looked particularly vicious when he came into the cabin for supper.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • I was beginning to feel like a pleb; as if I'd lost a bet with a friend with the forfeit being to traipse around the corridors of a hotel in nothing but a discoloured beach towel.

    A rainy day in Shanghai Neil McCarthy 2012

  • The tears were running down his puffed and discoloured cheeks, and his face was drawn with pain.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • The jaw dropped, the upper lip lifted, and two rows of tobacco-discoloured teeth appeared.

    Chapter 2 2010

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