Definitions
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- adj. Having a yellow color (or discoloration), especially when due to age.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of yellow.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. changed to a yellowish color by age
Etymologies
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Examples
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In front of me were pages yellowed from the passing of time, typed on a typewriter with English font.
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The two windows, both on the same side, were curtained with heavy muslin yellowed with age.
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The skull was described as yellowed with age and missing its teeth.
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That page is kind of yellowed, but I have it framed on the wall of my den.
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Ahhh ..... books ... don't you just love the smell of the really old "yellowed" ones?
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But there's something in the way he holds himself, something in the way his legs are crossed, that looks exactly like a man I've seen in grams' yellowed album.
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Even today, as the group's executive chef, Mr. Sahajdák keeps a weathered copy with broken bindings in his kitchen, his own bookmarks and notes complementing its cracked and yellowed pages.
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He said of a 25-year plan he was made to draw up while in business school, "It wasn't worth the yellowed paper it was written on."
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Photos from that evening show that the 25-year-old actress' teeth appeared to be seriously yellowed.
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Seth's design is lovely and I appreciated the decision to give the reproduction a yellowed look, as though you were reading the original, aged comics, but I was frustrated that I wasn't provided any insight, however minuscule, into the origins of this series.
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