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discolor'd

discolor'd is the obsolete form of discolored.

discolor'd is the simple past and past participle of discolor.

Meaning of discolored

Adjective

discolored (comparative more discolored, superlative most discolored)

  1. Deprived of color, or given the wrong color; pale, stained.
    • Once again you see an in / Discolored skin gives you away / So afraid, you kindly gurgle out a date for me2005, Alice in Chains, “Sludge Factory”, in Alice in Chains (grunge)
  2. (obsolete) Multicolored.
    • More sundry colours, then the proud Pauone / Beares in his boasted fan, or Iris bright, / When her discolourd bow she spreds through heauens hight.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book III, canto XI
    Synonyms:
    motley

Meaning of discolor

Verb

discolor (third-person singular simple present discolors, present participle discoloring, simple past and past participle discolored)

  1. (US, transitive) To change or lose color.
    • Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.

Forms of discolor'd

comparativemore discolor'd
superlativemost discolor'd

Questions about discolor'd

What is discolor'd the obsolete form of?
Discolor'd is the obsolete form of discolored.

Words near discolor'd in the dictionary

  1. discoligamentous
  2. discolike
  3. discolith
  4. discoliths
  5. discolor
  6. discolor'd
  7. discolorate
  8. discolorated
  9. discolorates
  10. discolorating
  11. discoloration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discolor'd (page history and authors); discolored (page history and authors); discolor (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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