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colourise

colourise verb: non-Oxford British standard spelling of colorize.

Verb

colourise (third-person singular simple present colourises, present participle colourising, simple past and past participle colourised)

  1. Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colorize.

Forms of colourise

third-person singular presentcolourises
present participlecolourising
past participlecolourised
pastcolourised

Origin of colourise

From colour + -ise.

Questions about colourise

What does colourise mean?
Colourise means non-Oxford British standard spelling of colorize.
What part of speech is colourise?
Colourise is a verb.
What is the past tense of colourise?
The past tense of colourise is colourised.

Words near colourise in the dictionary

  1. colouring pencils
  2. colouring up
  3. colourings
  4. colourisation
  5. colourisations
  6. colourise
  7. colourised
  8. colouriser
  9. colourisers
  10. colourises
  11. colourish

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