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colorise

colorise is the uncommon spelling of colorize.

Meaning of colorize

Verb

colorize (third-person singular simple present colorizes, present participle colorizing, simple past and past participle colorized)

  1. (US) To add color to.
    • The woman colorized her hair.
    Synonyms:
    color, color in
  2. (US) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects).
    • There is a colorized version of Casablanca.

Forms of colorise

third-person singular presentcolorises
present participlecolorising
past participlecolorised
pastcolorised

Origin of colorise

From color + -ise.

Words formed from colorise

Questions about colorise

What is colorise the uncommon spelling of?
Colorise is the uncommon spelling of colorize.

Words near colorise in the dictionary

  1. coloring pencil
  2. coloring pencils
  3. coloring up
  4. colorings
  5. colorisation
  6. colorise
  7. colorised
  8. coloriser
  9. colorises
  10. colorising
  11. colorism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorise (page history and authors); colorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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