tint
/tɪnt/ verb C2- To shade, to color.
He/she/it tints · Past tinted · Past participle tinted · -ing form tinting
Verb forms
- Base form
- tint
- He/she/it
- tints
- Past
- tinted
- Past participle
- tinted
- -ing form
- tinting
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There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine lingered and bees hummed, and winds, beguiled into loitering, purred and rustled.
He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint.
The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.
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