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yellow out

yellow out verb: to become thoroughly yellow, such as drying tobacco leaves, ripening fruit or aging newspaper.

Verb

yellow out (third-person singular simple present yellows out, present participle yellowing out, simple past and past participle yellowed out)

  1. (intransitive, literally, transitive) To become thoroughly yellow, such as drying tobacco leaves, ripening fruit or aging newspaper.
  2. (intransitive, slang) To chicken out.
  3. (transitive) To highlight (something) in yellow.

Forms of yellow out

third-person singular presentyellows out
present participleyellowing out
past participleyellowed out
pastyellowed out

Questions about yellow out

What does yellow out mean?
Yellow out means to become thoroughly yellow, such as drying tobacco leaves, ripening fruit or aging newspaper.
What part of speech is yellow out?
Yellow out is a verb.
What is the past tense of yellow out?
The past tense of yellow out is yellowed out.

Words near yellow out in the dictionary

  1. yellow onions
  2. yellow oriole
  3. yellow orioles
  4. yellow orpiment
  5. yellow orpiments
  6. yellow out
  7. yellow pages
  8. yellow paint
  9. yellow passport
  10. yellow passports
  11. yellow patch

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