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colourwashing

colourwashing is the present participle and gerund of colourwash.

Meaning of colourwash

Verb

colourwash (third-person singular simple present colourwashes, present participle colourwashing, simple past and past participle colourwashed)

  1. (UK, transitive) To paint with a coloured distemper (paint).

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Questions about colourwashing

What is colourwashing the present participle and gerund of?
Colourwashing is the present participle and gerund of colourwash.

Words near colourwashing in the dictionary

  1. colourtype
  2. colourtypes
  3. colourwash
  4. colourwashed
  5. colourwashes
  6. colourwashing
  7. colourway
  8. colourways
  9. colourwise
  10. colourwork
  11. coloury

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colourwashing (page history and authors); colourwash (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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