tinge
/tɪnd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
- To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
- To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.
Plural tinge · He/she/it tinges · Past tinged · Past participle tinged · -ing form tinging
Verb forms
- Base form
- tinge
- He/she/it
- tinges
- Past
- tinged
- Past participle
- tinged
- -ing form
- tinging
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Without having a tinge of cruelty in his singular composition, he was undoubtedly callous from long overstimulation.
The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.
Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.
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