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yellowing out

yellowing out is the present participle and gerund of yellow out.

Meaning of yellow out

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.

Questions about yellowing out

What is yellowing out the present participle and gerund of?
Yellowing out is the present participle and gerund of yellow out.

Words near yellowing out in the dictionary

  1. Yellowhorse
  2. yellowier
  3. yellowiest
  4. yellowing
  5. yellowing off
  6. yellowing out
  7. yellowing up
  8. yellowings
  9. yellowish
  10. yellowishly
  11. yellowishness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yellowing out (page history and authors); yellow 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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