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colorizing

colorizing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about colorizing

What is colorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Colorizing is the present participle and gerund of colorize.

Words near colorizing in the dictionary

  1. colorize
  2. colorized
  3. colorizer
  4. colorizers
  5. colorizes
  6. colorizing
  7. colorless
  8. colorlessly
  9. colorlessness
  10. colormaker
  11. colormakers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorizing (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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