ˈkʌl.ɚ ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ) ˈkʌl.ɚ ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ) ˈkʌl.ɚ ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ) dɪsˈtɔɹt dɪsˈtɔːt ɪmˈbleɪzən ˈsɛm.bləns tɪn(d)ʒ change color, often in an undesired manner The shirts discolored add color to The child colored the drawings Fall colored the trees colorize black and white film having or capable of producing colors color film he rented a color television marvelous color illustrations affect as in thought or feeling My personal feelings color my judgment in this case The sadness tinged his life give a deceptive explanation or excuse for color a lie decorate with colors color the walls with paint in warm tones modify or bias His political ideas color his lectures the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction the situation soon took on a different color a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light the timbre of a musical sound the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music interest and variety and intensity the Puritan Period was lacking in color the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction each flavor of quarks comes in three colors any material used for its color she used a different color for the trim