color
/ˈkʌl.ɚ/ verb A1- To give something color. · We could color the walls red.
- To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. · My kindergartener loves to color.
- To become red through increased blood flow. · Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
- To affect without completely changing. · That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). · Color me confused.· They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
- To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. · Can this graph be 2-colored?· You can color any map with four colors.
- To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
He/she/it colors · Past colored · Past participle colored · -ing form coloring
Verb forms
- Base form
- color
- He/she/it
- colors
- Past
- colored
- Past participle
- colored
- -ing form
- coloring
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I can’t feel exactly perfectly happy because--well, what color would you call this?”
And isn’t pink the most bewitching color in the world?
Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another color when she grew up?”
It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what color they were, that was ridiculous.
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