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(verb) turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow" |
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Related Words: colour, discolor, discolour |
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(satellite adjective) similar to the color of an egg yolk |
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Synonyms: yellowish |
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(satellite adjective) cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight" |
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(satellite adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment" |
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Synonyms: yellowed |
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(noun) the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons |
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Synonyms: yellowness |
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Related Words: amber, brownish yellow, canary, canary yellow, chromatic color, chromatic colour, chrome yellow, gamboge, gold, greenish yellow, lemon, lemon yellow, maize, old gold, orange yellow, saffron, spectral color, spectral colour |
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(satellite adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc |
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Synonyms: jaundiced |
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(satellite adjective) (archaic) showing or experiencing a state of disordered feeling or distorted judgment as through bitterness or melancholy; "all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye"-Alexander Pope |
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Synonyms: jaundiced |
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(satellite adjective) typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow journalism" |
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Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
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(satellite adjective) (informal) easily frightened |
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Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
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