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grey out

grey out is the alternative spelling of gray out.

Meaning of gray out

Verb

gray out (third-person singular simple present grays out, present participle graying out, simple past and past participle grayed out)

  1. To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
    Synonyms:
    ghost

Forms of grey out

third-person singular presentgreys out
present participlegreying out
past participlegreyed out
pastgreyed out

Questions about grey out

What is grey out the alternative spelling of?
Grey out is the alternative spelling of gray out.

Words near grey out in the dictionary

  1. grey nomads
  2. grey nurse
  3. grey nurse shark
  4. grey nurse sharks
  5. grey nurses
  6. grey out
  7. grey ox
  8. grey parrot
  9. grey parrots
  10. grey partridge
  11. grey partridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grey out (page history and authors); gray out (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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