英和和英

語源

From de- +‎ color +‎ -ize.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /diːˈkʌləɹaɪz/, /diːˈkʊləɹaɪz/

動詞

decolorize (third-person singular simple present decolorizes, present participle decolorizing, simple past and past participle decolorized)

1. (US, transitive) To remove the color from.
2. (US, intransitive) To lose one’s color.
   • 1912 November, Edwin Henry Schorer, “Experimental Studies on Milk”, in Ludvig Hektoen, Edwin O. Jordan, editors, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume II, number 3, page 331:

     According to Rühm fresh milk remains blue for 12 hours or more, and infected milk decolorizes in less than one hour.

派生語