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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discolour.

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Examples

  • Divorce, as Theodor Adorno observed, even between good-natured, amiable, educated people, is apt to stir up a dust-cloud that covers and discolours all it touches.

    Divorce, American Style 2009

  • Divorce, as Theodor Adorno observed, even between good-natured, amiable, educated people, is apt to stir up a dust-cloud that covers and discolours all it touches.

    Divorce, American Style 2009

  • Divorce, as Theodor Adorno observed, even between good-natured, amiable, educated people, is apt to stir up a dust-cloud that covers and discolours all it touches.

    Divorce, American Style 2009

  • Divorce, as Theodor Adorno observed, even between good-natured, amiable, educated people, is apt to stir up a dust-cloud that covers and discolours all it touches.

    Divorce, American Style 2009

  • Zirník or orpiment, 3 parts: it is applied in the Hammam to a perspiring skin, and it must be washed off immediately the hair is loosened or it burns and discolours.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The white phlegm, though dangerous when detained within by reason of the air-bubbles, yet if it can communicate with the outside air, is less severe, and only discolours the body, generating leprous eruptions and similar diseases.

    Timaeus 2006

  • Forty years ago it was possible to see the bottom through twenty feet of water six metres for younger folk, now mud that was held down by the sea grass, discolours the water with every breeze.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Forty years ago it was possible to see the bottom through twenty feet of water six metres for younger folk, now mud that was held down by the sea grass, discolours the water with every breeze.

    At My Table 2005

  • Faith, it does me; though it discolours the complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it.

    The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • The mouth is coarse as well as thick-lipped; the teeth rarely project as in the Negro, but they are not good; the habit of perpetually chewing coarse Surat tobacco stains them16, the gums become black and mottled, and the use of ashes with the quid discolours the lips.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

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