If you wash your favorite white shirt with a brand new, bright red towel, your shirt is probably going to discolor, or change color from white to pink.
- Pronunciation: / dɪs'kʌlɚ/
- English description: cause to lose or change color
- Synonyms: change color
- Chinese Translation: 染色(ran3 se4)
- Spanish Translation: decolorar
- ORIGIN: Use the verb discolor when something fades or alters in color. Your teeth might discolor from drinking too much black tea, and you might notice your beach towel discoloring after a summer spent at the seaside. The word discolor has been in use since the fourteenth century, and it comes from the Old French descolorer, with colorer meaning "to color."
EXAMPLE SENTENCE:
- The water that came out of their faucets turned cloudy, foamy and discolored, and smelled and tasted foul.
- I saw that the beige carpet was worn away—not discolored or faded but just worked through by the ceaseless back-and-forth of my desk chair.
*New word description, story and part of "EXAMPLE SENTENCE" are cited in Vocabulary
Song of the Week: <You Raise Me Up>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW1dXDb7aDw
http://v.qq.com/page/t/1/d/t0133n59k1d.html