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color
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of COLOR
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to give color or a different color to <she's colored her hair for so long and so often that no one knows what her natural color is>
Related Words brighten, lighten; darken, embrown, tone (down); checker, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, speck, speckle, streak, striate, stripe, variegate
Antonyms decolorize
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to add to the interest of by including made-up details <he gave a highly colored version of a rather mundane experience>
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to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <his news reporting is colored by his prejudices>
Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
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